| FT-278842-21 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Erin A. Smith | Rereading American Women's Crime Fiction of the Cold War | 6/15/2021 - 8/14/2021 | $6,000.00 | Erin | A. | Smith | | | | University of Texas, Dallas | Richardson | TX | 75080-3021 | USA | 2021 | American Studies | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 6000 | 0 | 6000 | 0 | Archival
research relating to a book on women’s genre fiction in the cold war era.
Feminine Noir?: Rereading American Women’s Crime Fiction of the Cold War is a scholarly monograph-in-progress. I have three purposes: (1) to think about women’s crime fiction as cultural documents of the Cold War that engage with what historian Elaine Tyler May calls “domestic containment”; (2) to present a comparative reception study of these books in their Cold War pulp paperback formats and in their contemporary feminist reprints; and (3) to rewrite the history of American crime fiction to more accurately reflect the centrality of women writers. Using a history of the book approach, I argue that these books illuminated how women navigated a society in which literal and symbolic violence against women and children was quite ordinary, and state authorities were often indifferent or hostile to the victims. In an era before second-wave feminism made cultural conversations about rape, sexual violence, and child abuse public, these texts engaged precisely those issues. |
| FT-47099-02 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Erin A. Smith | Souls and Commodities: Spirituality and Print Culture in 20th-Century America | 5/1/2002 - 9/30/2002 | $5,000.00 | Erin | A. | Smith | | | | University of Texas, Dallas | Richardson | TX | 75080-3021 | USA | 2002 | American Studies | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 | No project description available |