| Description |
xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Feminist cultural studies, the media, and political culture |
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Feminist cultural studies, the media, and political culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-244) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women is the first study to explore the cultural work performed by female tricksters in the "new country" of American mass consumer culture. Beginning with nineteenth-century novels such as The Hidden Hand, or Capitola the Madcap 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. |
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She considers texts of the 1920s such as the silent film It and Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; pre- and post-Production Code Mae West films, Depression-era screwball comedy, and wartime comedy; the postwar television series I Love Lucy; and such contemporary texts as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ellen, Batman Returns, and Sister Act. In addition, Landay explores the connections between these texts and advertisements selling products that encourage female deception and trickery. |
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When these texts are seen in a continuum, they tell a powerful story about woman's place and women's power during the sexual desegregation of American society. |
| Subject |
Women in popular culture -- United States.
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Women in mass media.
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Women in literature.
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Women -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Man-woman relationships -- United States.
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Feminist theory -- United States.
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Feminist theory. (OCoLC)fst00922816
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Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Women in literature. (OCoLC)fst01177912
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Women in mass media. (OCoLC)fst01177920
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Women in popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01177953
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Betrügerin (DE-588)7579089-0
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Kultur (DE-588)4125698-0
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United States (DE-588)4078704-7
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Comics (Graphic works) (OCoLC)fst01921613
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Comic books, strips, etc. (OCoLC)fst01423722
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Comics (Graphic works)
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Landay, Lori. Madcaps, screwballs, and con women. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1998 (OCoLC)605280396 |
| ISBN |
0812234359 (acid-free paper) |
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9780812234350 (acid-free paper) |
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0812216512 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
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9780812216516 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
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