A Woman’s View
How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930–1960
Jeanine Basinger

Wesleyan University Press
distributed by University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• The Genre
• I. The Woman Herself
• 2. Duality :“My God! There’s Two of Her”
• 3. Fashion and Glamour
• 4. The Stars Who Play Her
• 5. Ways of Seeing Her
• 6. The Woman’s World
• 7. Men
• 8. Marriage
• 9. Motherhood
• 10. The Woman in the Man’s World
• 11. Proof: Kitty and Angie and Janet
• 12. Appendix: Women at the Box Office
• 13. Bibliography
• 14. Index
• 15.
Binder, Wolfgang/American Contradictions




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