Hollywood's second sex
Subtitle: the treatment of women in the film industry, 1900-1999
By: Aubrey Malone
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780786479788
Subjects: Motion pictures; Women in the motion picture industry; Sex discrimination in employment; Sexual harassment of women; Women in motion pictures; History
Description: "Women stars in Hollywood were invariably in one of two categories," said director Otto Preminger. "One group was made up of women who were exploited by men, and the other, much smaller group was composed of women who survived by acting like men." This study of misogyny describes how female stars were maltreated by a sexist studio system"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Birth pangs of a new medium; title: Entrances and exits; title: Rigors of the code; title: Outside the trenches; title: Postwar transitions; title: Scandals and torments; title: The Eisenhower years; title: The lipstick sex; title: Changing of the guard; title: The swinging sixties; title: Life after Marilyn; title: The sexual revolution; title: Leaving the doll's house; title: The beginnings of cynicism; title: Fatal attractions; title: Outrageous fortunes; title: The stone age; title: Epilogue.