REBEKAHBENNINGER1<\/a>\u00a0 tells us \u201cAn author\u2019s intent changes depending on the type of person an author is and also what type of book is being written.\u201d\u00a0Throughout the depression the female idea of motherhood was worshiped. (pg 1) In this article RA\/FSA photos focused on the victim, woman and child. Kozol, almost sarcastic, tells us that the best way to justify the need for relief programs was through women and children. (pg 7) During the depression it was hard for anyone to get a job, let alone a woman. While these photos might have meant well, they were quite damaging to the working women. They created a stigma that women were helpless and they needed to take care of their family. There were efforts to bring the United States back to a patriarchal society and these photographs helped move that along. It is still true today that women and children are the central theme when portraying poverty. There are programs that are available to women and children in need. One such program, is only available to this select group. Women, Infant, and Children, also known as WIC, is a food \u201cstamp\u201d program to those in poverty. In order to be illegible for this program you must: be a woman, have a child younger than 5, and make no more than 800 dollars a month. While many people have mixed feelings about government aid programs and if they promote those receiving benefits not to work, one thing remains. The majority of the programs were meant just for women and children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kozol\u2019s work on photography of women during the depression was insightful. We are informed that the \u201cimages ask to alleviate the madonna\u2019s immediate need rather than demand political or economic exchange.\u201d (pg 2) So what is the author\u2019s point with this quote? As REBEKAHBENNINGER1\u00a0 tells us \u201cAn author\u2019s intent changes depending on the type of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}