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Hollywood's Second Sex: The Treatment of Women in the Film Industry, 1900-1999

Aubrey Malone

""Women stars in Hollywood were invariably in one of two categories," said director Otto Preminger. "One group was made up of women who were exploited by men, and the other, much smaller group was composed of women who survived by acting like men." This study of misogyny describes how female stars were maltreated by a sexist studio system"--

GenresWomen in the motion picture industryUnited StatesHistory20th centurySex discrimination in employmentSexual harassment of women

238 pages

English edition · First published 2015 by McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers · ISBN 9780786479788

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