Auteur onderzoekt de manier waarop zwarte vrouwen reageren op teksten en films als The Color Purple van Alice Walker, Waiting to Exhale van Terry McMillan en Julie Dash's Daughters of Dust.
Creator
Bobo, Jacqueline
Attack of the leading ladies
Creator
Berenstein, Rhona J.
Attack of the leading ladies
Bevat filmografie en bibliografie.
Creator
Berenstein, Rhona J.
Designing women
Creator
Fischer, Lucy
Designing women
The author attempts to interpret the female fixation, as a 'symptom' of societal anxieties about the emergent New Woman, a challenging figure on the American scene in the 1920s and 1930s embodied in such as Art Deco material culture, and in film and musical.