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Hollywood's second sex : the treatment of women in the film industry, 1900-1999 /

"Women stars in Hollywood were invariably in one of two categories," said director Otto Preminger. "One group was made up of women who were exploited by men, and the other, much smaller group was composed of women who survived by acting like men." This study of misogyny describes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Malone, Aubrey (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
Subjects:
Women in the motion picture industry > United States > History > 20th century.
Sex discrimination in employment > United States.
Sexual harassment of women > United States.
Women in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Birth pangs of a new medium
  • Entrances and exits
  • Rigors of the code
  • Outside the trenches
  • Postwar transitions
  • Scandals and torments
  • The Eisenhower years
  • The lipstick sex
  • Changing of the guard
  • The swinging sixties
  • Life after Marilyn
  • The sexual revolution
  • Leaving the doll's house
  • The beginnings of cynicism
  • Fatal attractions
  • Outrageous fortunes
  • The stone age
  • Epilogue.