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Genre/Form: | Comics (Graphic works) Comic books, strips, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Landay, Lori. Madcaps, screwballs, and con women. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1998 (OCoLC)605280396 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lori Landay |
ISBN: | 0812234359 9780812234350 0812216512 9780812216516 |
OCLC Number: | 37987032 |
Description: | xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Preface: "Whenever I Take a Notion" -- 1. Running Mad, Taking Cover: Female Tricksters in Nineteenth-Century Fiction by American Women -- 2. Economics and Erotics: The Female Trickster in the Jazz Age -- 3. Out of the Garden and into the War: Female Tricksters in the Depression and War Years -- 4. Liminal Lucy: Covert Power, Television, and Postwar Domestic Ideology -- 5. You Can't Go Home Again: Feminism and the Female Trickster in Contemporary American Culture. |
Series Title: | Feminist cultural studies, the media, and political culture. |
Responsibility: | Lori Landay. |
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"Beginning with nineteenth-century novels . . . and moving through twentieth-century fiction, film, radio, and television, Lori Landay looks at how popular heroines use craft and deceit to circumvent the limitations of femininity. In addition, Landay explores the connections between these texts and advertisements selling products that encourage female deception and trickery. . . . They tell a powerful story about woman's place and women's power during the sexual desegregation of American society."-ScreenSite "An important addition to the study of women in the 'liminal' spaces of American culture in the twentieth century."-Journal of American History Read more...


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