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Gordon Marsha - Becoming The Ex - Wife The Unconventional Life And Forgotten Writings Of Ursula Parrott - Hardcover
Gordon Marsha - Becoming The Ex - Wife The Unconventional Life And Forgotten Writings Of Ursula Parrott - Hardcover
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Description: " 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.
Title: Becoming The Ex - Wife The Unconventional Life And Forgotten Writings Of Ursula Parrott
Author(s): Gordon Marsha
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520391543
Pages: 312 Pages, 43 B-W Illustrations
Publication Date: 4/25/2023
Category: Gender Studies: Women
Description: " 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.
Title: Becoming The Ex - Wife The Unconventional Life And Forgotten Writings Of Ursula Parrott
Author(s): Gordon Marsha
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520391543
Pages: 312 Pages, 43 B-W Illustrations
Publication Date: 4/25/2023
Category: Gender Studies: Women
