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- ISBN 9781570036583
- Weight: 588g
- Dimensions: 165 x 232mm
- Publication Date: 25 Mar 2007
- Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Rife with palpable misery, the hundreds of letters assembled in ""Forgotten Women"" paint a bleak and accurate portrait of the female experience among Floridians during the Great Depression. In pursuit of a means to provide for their families, Florida women doggedly, often naively, wrote letters to agencies, charities, and state and federal government officials asking for relief assistance. Green gathers more than three hundred letters written by Floridians that reveal the immediacy and intensity of their plight. The struggles of many of the women, however, reflect the Depression's extraordinarily devastating impact in Florida, where it followed on the heels of massive hurricanes, a medfly epidemic, and a land bust of monumental dimension.
Elna C. Green is the Allen Morris Professor of History at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Her previous books include This Business of Relief: Confronting Poverty in a Southern City, 1740-1940 and Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question.
