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Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott

Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Marsha GordonPublish date:2024-08-06Pages:314
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520409637ISBN-10:520409639UPC:9780520409637Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Women, Literary Figures, FilmBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.80 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCESQ1BR6N
"Makes an excellent case for Parrott as an unjustly forgotten historical figure."--The New Yorker
"Remind[s] us of the brazenly talented women sidelined by convention."--New York Times
The riveting biography of Ursula Parrott--best-selling author, Hollywood screenwriter, and voice for the modern woman.

Credited with popularizing the label "ex-wife" in 1929, Ursula Parrott wrote provocatively about divorc?es, career women, single mothers, work-life balance, and a host of new challenges facing modern women. Her best sellers, Hollywood film deals, marriages and divorces, and run-ins with the law made her a household name. Part biography, part cultural history, Becoming the Ex-Wife establishes Parrott's rightful place in twentieth-century American culture, uncovering her neglected work and keen insights into American women's lives during a period of immense social change.

Although she was frequently dismissed as a "woman's writer," reading Parrott's writing today makes it clear that she was a trenchant philosopher of modernity--her work was prescient, anticipating issues not widely raised until decades after her decline into obscurity. With elegant wit and a deft command of the archive, Marsha Gordon tells a timely story about the life of a woman on the front lines of a culture war that is still raging today.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520409637ISBN-10:520409639UPC:9780520409637Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Women, Literary Figures, FilmBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.80 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCESQ1BR6N
Marsha Gordon is Professor of Film Studies at North Carolina State University, a former Fellow at the National Humanities Center, and the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar award. She is the author of numerous books and articles and codirector of several short documentaries.
Publisher: University of California Press

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