Professor Lisa Orr - Publications

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Professor Lisa Orr, Ph.D.

Publications

Book:

Transforming American Realism: Working-Class Women Writers of the Twentieth Century is available at University Press of America or Amazon.

“Lisa Orr's Transforming American Realism forcefully demonstrates how working women have bent the narrative strategies of realistic literature for the sake of telling true tales about the conditions under which they live. Orr's smart, sharp, provocative assessments trace one hundred years of efforts by working-class women writers to counter the narrow narratives used by other to sentimentalize, to sensationalize, and to reject the realities of class, race and ethnicity, sex and gender that define their existence. Her conclusions restore vibrancy to the practice of realistic literature and authenticity to the lives that realistic narratives are capable of portraying once their strengths are unleashed.”

— Martha Banta, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles; Author of Henry James and the Occult: The Great Extension

Essays:

Orr, Lisa. “The Real Reasons Why Low-Income Students Don’t Apply to Elite Universities.” The Huffington Post. Online. 31 August 2016. Available at www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-real-reasons-why-low-income-students-dont-apply_us_57c6c563e4b0b9c5b7360446

Orr, Lisa. “Corrective Genealogy for White People.” The Huffington Post. Online. 10 June 2016. Available at www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/corrective-genealogy-for-white-people_us_575ab77be4b0b6c496008de4

Orr, Lisa. “Don’t Blame the Working Class.” The Huffington Post. Online. 16 May 2016. Available at www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dont-blame-the-working-class_us_573a2a03e4b06dede18b986a#comments

Orr, Lisa. “New York’s Mixed-Race Riot.” The New York Times. Online. 15 July 2013. Available at http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/new-yorks-mixed-race-riot/.

Review of What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel 1920-1960, by Gordon Hutner. South Atlantic Review 76.3. (2011): 193-95.

“Theorizing the Earth: Feminist Approaches to Nature and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony.” Reprinted in Gathering Native Scholars: UCLA's Forty Years of American Indian Culture and Research. Ed. Kenneth Lincoln. Los Angeles: UCLA American Indian Studies Center, 2009.

"'Difference that Is Actually Sameness Mass-Reproduced': Barbie Joins the Princess Convergence.” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 1.1 (2009): 9-30.

"'People Who Might Have Been You': Agency and the Damaged Self in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio" and "Stories from a Working-Class Childhood.” Reprinted in What We Hold in Common: An Introduction to Working-Class Studies. New York: Feminist Press, 2001.

"'Cotton Patch Strumpets' and Masculine Women: Performing Classed Genders.” Race, Gender and Class 7.1 (2000): 23-42.

Introduction. Working-Class Lives and Cultures: Critical and Pedagogical Essays, Memoir, and Poetry. Special issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly 26.1-2 (1998): 4-12.

“In Memory of Constance Coiner: A ‘Foremother’ of Contemporary Working-Class Studies.” Working-Class Lives and Cultures: Critical and Pedagogical Essays, Memoir, and Poetry. Special issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly 26.1-2 (1998): 255-56.

Rev. of Questions of Cultural Identity, ed. Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay, and Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman, ed. Paul du Gay, et al. Electronic Book Review. Online. November 1997.

"'People Who Might Have Been You': Agency and the Damaged Self in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio.” Spec. issue on Working-Class Studies of Women's Studies Quarterly 23.1-2 (1995): 219-228

"Theorizing the Earth: Feminist Approaches to Nature and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 18.2 (1994): 145-157.

Memoir:

"Stories from a Working-Class Childhood." Spec. issue on Working-Class Studies of Women's Studies Quarterly 23.1-2 (1995): 16-18.

Edited Collections:

Christopher, Renny, Lisa Orr, and Linda Strom, eds. Working-Class Lives and Cultures: Critical and Pedagogical Essays, Memoir, and Poetry. Special issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly 26.1-2 (1998).

Editor, The Homeless: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1990.

Editor, Censorship: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1990.

Editor, Sexual Values: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1989.