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In this weeks reading, “Photography, Gender, and 1930’s Farm Relief,” Wendy Kozol tries to examine through photographs that the RA/FSA published, what exactly was their goal, and how they planned to help rural people at that time. Kazoo mentions that in the 1930’s photos were beginning to become a more credible source, so magazines and other sources with photography blossomed.  With the help of photos, they gave people and insight on how bad the situation was, showing that the government needed to provide even more aid to the people. However on the photos, Kozul believed that the Women, needed more help than Men did. She argues that Women are depicted as Madonnas or nurturers.  Kazoo states that, unlike Jessicasbode statement where she talks about Marxism stating “She connects feminism with Marxism because they “believe class structure has a role in gender,” Kozol states that class isn’t the only issue in the photo, but in fact it is the actions that the women in the photos are preforming, which is always either carrying a child. She believes that women should have been depicted in actual roles either in the field working as they often did. However, the RA/FSA wanted to divide gender by the roles they played in society. Another arguement Kozol mentions is the fact that gender is defined by the term Madonna, which as Cluna3 states is a approach that, “Marxist feminists also have a historic approach, that there must be a “material” explanation for gender”. So to sum that statement up, in order to fall into the female category of a gender you must be able to give birth.