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5%OFFLori Landay - Madcaps, Screwballs and Con Women - 9780812216516 - V9780812216516
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Madcaps, Screwballs and Con Women

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Description for Madcaps, Screwballs and Con Women Paperback. "Lori Landay tells a powerful story about woman's place and women's power during the sexual desegregation of American society."-ScreenSite Series: Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media, & Political Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 76 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media, & Political Culture
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812216516
SKU
V9780812216516
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Lori Landay
Lori Landay teaches in the Department of English and Journalism at Western Illinois University.

Reviews for Madcaps, Screwballs and Con Women
"An important addition to the study of women in the 'liminal' spaces of American culture in the twentieth century."
Journal of American History
"Beginning with nineteenth-century novels . . . and moving through twentieth-century fiction, film, radio, and television, Lori Landay looks at how popular heroines use craft and deceit to circumvent the limitations of femininity. In addition, ... Read more

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