Title: Vanity fair's women on women /
Authors: Jones, Radhika,
Date: 2019
Publisher: Penguin Press,
Physical description: xiv, 433 pages ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: C
Abstract: This volume collects 30 of the best profiles, essays, and columns on female subjects written by female contributors to the magazine over the past 35 years.
Contents: The comedians. Making Whoopi (Whoopi Goldberg) / by Janet Coleman (July 1984) ; What Tina wants (Tina Fey) / by Maureen Dowd (January 2009) -- The White House. Barbara's backlash (Barbara Bush) / by Marjorie Williams (August 1992) ; What Hillary wants (Hillary Clinton) / by Gail Sheehy (May 1992) ; First Lady in waiting (Michelle Obama) / by Leslie Bennetts (December 2007) -- Society and style. Emily Post's social revolution (Emily Post) / by Laura Jacobs (December 2001) ; To war in silk stockings (Kathleen Harriman Mortimer) / by Marie Brenner (November 2011) ; When Hubert met Audrey (Audrey Hepburn) / by Amy Fine Collins (December 1995) -- The renegades. Diary of a mad artist (Frida Kahlo) / by Amy Fine Collins (September 1995) ; Our lady of the kitchen (Julia Child) / by Laura Jacobs (August 2009) ; Deconstructing Gloria (Gloria Steinem) / by Leslie Bennetts (January 1992) -- The musicians. California dreamgirl (Michelle Phillips) / by Sheila Weller (December 2007) ; The lady has legs! (Tina Turner) / by Maureen Orth (May 1993) ; In Lady Gaga's wake (Lady Gaga) / by Lisa Robinson (January 2012) -- The House of Windsor. Love and majesty (Queen Elizabeth II) / by Sally Bedell Smith (January 2012) ; The mouse that roared (Princess Diana) / by Tina Brown (October 1985) -- The stars. Grace Kelly's forever look (Grace Kelly) / by Laura Jacobs (May 2010) ; Nicole's new light (Nicole Kidman) / by Ingrid Sischy (December 2002) ; Something about Meryl (Meryl Streep) by Leslie Bennetts (January 2010) ; Forever Cher (Cher) / by Krista Smith (December 2010) ; Ready for Lena (Lena Waithe) / by Jacqueline Woodson (April 2018) ; The change agent (Michelle Williams) / by Amanda Fortini (July 2018) -- In their own words. A boom of their own / Cari Beauchamp (Hollywood issue 2018) ; What happens when the reckoning meets Wall Street / Bethany McLean (March 2018) ; How to break up the Silicon Valley boys' club / Susan Wojcicki (March 2017) ; How millenial women are combatting the gender-pay gap / Maya Kosoff (April 2018) ; Why I decided to run / Lucy McBath (April 2018) ; #MeToo and me / Monica Lewinsky (March 2018).
Subject headings (LCSH): Biographies.; Case studies.; Women--Attitudes--Case studies.; Women--Biography.