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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The hedonic power promised in the ads takes the form of the social practice of
female trickery in everyday life . ... sublimate assertive impulses behind a mask of
feminine behavior , are necessarily involved in everyday duplicitous practices .
The social practice of female trickery functions in the popular culture of the
twenties as a way of escaping traditional ... as practices appropriated by mass
consumer culture in the legitimation of the cosmetics , beauty , and fashion
industries ( as ...
... side we have the submissive “ oldfashioned lure business ” based on the
products and practices of mass consumption . ... subverts the cosmetics ,
grooming , and behavior that constitute the social practice of female trickery in
everyday life .
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