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Spinster tales and womanly possibilities / Naomi Braun Rosenthal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosenthal, Naomi Braun, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Women and literature--United States--History.
- Women and literature.
- Feminist fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Feminist fiction, American.
- Single women in literature.
- Women in motion pictures.
- Single women--Fiction.
- Single women.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 186 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1 The Persistent Spinster 1
- 2 "Bossed by a Woman" 19
- 3 An E/Man/Cipated Woman 31
- 4 "She Has Deliberately Shut the Door of Opportunity" 53
- 5 A Debatable Figure 71
- 6 "A Lady Scholar?" 89
- 7 Sex and the Single Girl 107
- 8 Hollywood Stars 125
- 9 An Ideal Woman 145.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176), filmography and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791452050
- 0791452069
- OCLC:
- 47844558
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