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The Extra Woman audiobook
- By: Joanna Scutts
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, General
- Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: November 14, 2017
- Language: English
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The Extra Woman Audiobook Summary
Despite multiple waves of feminist revolution, today’s single woman is still mired in judgment or, worse, pity. But for one brief exclamatory period in the 1930s, she was all the rage.
Marjorie Hillis was working at Vogue when she published the radical self-help book Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman. With Dorothy Parker-esque wit, she urged spinsters, divorcees, and old maids to shed derogatory labels, and her philosophy became a phenomenon. From the importance of a peignoir to the joy of breakfast in bed (alone), Hillis’s tips made single life desirable and chic.
Now, historian and critic Joanna Scutts reclaims Hillis as the queen of the “Live-Aloners” and explores the turbulent decades that followed, when the status of these “brazen ladies” peaked and then collapsed. The Extra Woman follows Hillis and others like her who forged their independent paths before the 1950s saw them trapped behind picket fences yet again.
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The Extra Woman Full Details
| Length | 10 hours 12 minutes |
| Author | Joanna Scutts |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Tantor Media, Inc |
| Release date | November 14, 2017 |
| ISBN | 9781541479944 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Extra Woman is Tantor Media, Inc. includes the following subjects: single women, feminism, gender studies, Biography & Autobiography, General, Biography & Autobiography, Women, History, General, Literary Criticism, General, Social Science, General, Social Science, Anthropology, General, Social Science, Anthropology, Cultural, Social Science, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science, Sociology, General, Social Science, Women's Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, General
Additional info
The publisher of the The Extra Woman is Tantor Media, Inc. The imprint is Tantor Media, Inc. It is supplied by Tantor Media, Inc. The ISBN-13 is 9781541479944.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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