Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American CultureUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1998 - 258 страница Women have been tricking men for thousands of years, and female tricksters have been appearing in classic and popular texts at least since the Thousand and One Nights. While there are many studies of tricksters, few have focused on the chicanery of women, and none have dealt with the ways in which the female trickster is constructed in America. Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women is the first book to explore the cultural work performed by female tricksters in the "new country" of American mass consumer culture. Beginning with such nineteenth-century novels as Capitola the Madcap and moving through twentieth-century novels, films, radio, and television shows, Lori Landay looks at how popular heroines use craft and deceit to circumvent the limitations of femininity. She considers texts of the 1920s such as Elinor Glyn's It and Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; films of Mae West, as well as other Depression-era and wartime film comedy; the postwar television series I Love Lucy; and such contemporary texts as "Roseanne," "Ellen," and "Batman." In addition, Landay explores the connections between these texts and advertisements selling products that encourage female deception and trickery. |
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... tion to appropriate the desire for women's increased freedom in the public sphere and offer its product as both symbolic and actual satisfac- tion , feminist impulses led not to political power , but to nicotine addic- tion , a symbol ...
... tion of the skeleton articulates the way the Depression challenged defi- nitions of manhood based on man's work and his role as breadwinner ; all the phallic implications of David's search for his lost " bone " ( and Susan's location of ...
... tion , 34 , 41-43 , 45 ; in popular culture , xi , 214. See also outlaws Cooper , Gary , 211 cosmetics ( including hair dye ) : and com- modification of beauty , 63-64 , 66-75 , 92 ; as form of trickery , 30 , 88 , 92 , 119- 22 , 158 ...
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