Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American CultureWomen 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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Moreover , Betty ' s physicality is representative of the modern woman ' s
participation in the public sphere . The focus on the physical was reinforced by
the popularity of frenetic dancing and women ' s increasing participation in sports
. Instead ...
... a quartet with the participation of Baby and George ) that David ' s enjoyment of
himself and of Susan ' s company occupies him fully ; his face changes from
exaggerated humorlessness to a softened expression of satisfaction and
pleasure .
Loos perpetuated her characterization of the blonde because Lorelei brought her
fame and fortune . She emerged as a media star of sorts , building on her
participation in the silent film industry and the New York literary and cultural elite .
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