{"id":62,"date":"2016-10-11T04:43:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/?p=62"},"modified":"2018-10-10T16:49:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T16:49:20","slug":"mothers-gone-a-welding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/2016\/10\/11\/mothers-gone-a-welding\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother\u2019s Gone-A-Welding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-109 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/files\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-05-at-11.23.32-PM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-04-05-at-11-23-32-pm\" width=\"353\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/files\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-05-at-11.23.32-PM.png 353w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/files\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-05-at-11.23.32-PM-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-111 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/files\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-24-at-11.47.11-PM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-04-24-at-11-47-11-pm\" width=\"224\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMother\u2019s Gone-A-Welding\u201d by Eva Lapin<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Masses<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, June 15, 1943<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">William Gropper<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">An illustration by William Gropper, inspired by the imagery of the French revolution, appears in this article by Eva Lapin. The article addresses the active of role women in industry and the sacrifices made in order to balance domestic obligations and public roles in factory work. In contrast, the women in Gropper\u2019s illustration are employed solely as allegorical symbols for abstract social concepts; they are not actually part of the revolution, but embodiments of ideas. A small illustration of a \u201cfactory girl\u201d near the end of Lapin\u2019s article redeems the spread. Although the image is simple, and its authorship unclear, the female worker matches the tone of the article much more effectively. Unlike Gropper\u2019s Liberty, who sports a Phrygian cap and Roman toga, this woman is rooted firmly in the 1940s; wearing a bandanna, overalls, and work gloves, she appears prepared and willing to work. The \u201cfactory girl\u201d serves as an intriguing alternative to the precedent set in New Masses for depicting women workers as exploited victims.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Grace Iverson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cMother\u2019s Gone-A-Welding\u201d by Eva Lapin New Masses, June 15, 1943 William Gropper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/framingjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}