Bad Women: Regulating Sexuality in Early American Cinema
ISBN: 9780816686575
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Women in motion pictures; Sex in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- United States -- History;

Bad Women takes us back to this time of massive social, cultural, and economic change to show us how American cinema gave women and womenOCOs sexuality images useful to the new consumer culture of the early 1900s and its exploitation of sexual pleasure. Rich in historical detail and theoretical insight, this book offers an original depiction of a culture in transition, a sexual sensibility in the making, and filmOCOs participation in the change."


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