... value as a persuasive tool and its use in “political mimesis,” with feminists asserting political agency by creating “correspondence” with opponents to raise consciousness. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 Section 213 Feminist press Great Depression Working wives...

.... The successes of these talented women were by no means inevitable. 29 Auditioning during the depths of the Great Depression, King, Starkey, and Carothers had been told by more than one executive that there was no place for an act like theirs in radio. 30 Three women together could be singers, perhaps...