I feel that the interpretation of the content of "All-of-a-kind family" by susan bloom is untrue. it implies that these books are light and skirt issues when in fact this series includes some particularly serious content like the epidemic of 1916, the death of a friend's single parent mother who dies of influenza.. thereby becoming an orphan... Bloom says that there are stereotypes of woman only working at home which is also not true. One of the main characters, Lena, is a woman who works in a factory like so many of her peers as did the woman who died. There is also a character who lost both her son and her husband and now works as a nurse. It is often the graphic nature of how hard those times where that make these books so powerful and historically profound.
I feel that the interpretation of the content of "All-of-a-kind family" by susan bloom is untrue. it implies that these books are light and skirt issues when in fact this series includes some particularly serious content like the epidemic of 1916, the death of a friend's single parent mother who dies of influenza.. thereby becoming an orphan... Bloom says that there are stereotypes of woman only working at home which is also not true. One of the main characters, Lena, is a woman who works in a factory like so many of her peers as did the woman who died. There is also a character who lost both her son and her husband and now works as a nurse. It is often the graphic nature of how hard those times where that make these books so powerful and historically profound.