TKAM Context: Gender and Women's Rights in the 1920s and 1930s

A reading about women during the Great Depression of the 1930s is here.

An interview with three white women from relatively well-off families is here. "The three women discuss many of the issues raised in To Kill a Mockingbird: how they defined a "good family" (so dear to Aunt Alexandra's heart and so baffling to Scout and Jem); poor whites in Alabama and Florida (very like the Cunninghams); their relationship with African-Americans; and the expectations and realities of those who would grow up to be proper southern "belles."

A well done summary of the position of women in the 1930s is here.