American Gold Digger (eBook)

Marriage, Money, and the Law from the Ziegfeld Follies to Anna Nicole Smith

Brian Donovan (Autor)

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2020
290 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-6029-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The stereotype of the "e;gold digger"e; has had a fascinating trajectory in twentieth-century America, from tales of greedy flapper-era chorus girls to tabloid coverage of Anna Nicole Smith and her octogenarian tycoon husband. The term entered American vernacular in the 1910s as women began to assert greater power over courtship, marriage, and finances, threatening men's control of legal and economic structures. Over the course of the century, the gold digger stereotype reappeared as women pressed for further control over love, sex, and money while laws failed to keep pace with such realignments. The gold digger can be seen in silent films, vaudeville jokes, hip hop lyrics, and reality television. Whether feared, admired, or desired, the figure of the gold digger appears almost everywhere gender, sexuality, class, and race collide.This fascinating interdisciplinary work reveals the assumptions and disputes around women's sexual agency in American life, shedding new light on the cultural and legal forces underpinning romantic, sexual, and marital relationships.

Autor

Brian Donovan is professor of sociology at the University of Kansas.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.11.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and American Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and American Culture
• Zusatzinfo: 16 halftones, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: alimony • Allotment Annie • allotment wives • American Cultural History • American cultural history of law • Anita Loos • Anna Nicole Smith • Avery Hopwood • Billy Rose • Breach of promise • California Supreme Court • Companionate Marriage • cultural history of marriage • cultural power • Cultural Sociology • divorce crisis • Eleanor Holm • Faith Baldwin • female • female trickster • Feminism • folk devil • Gender Ideology • Gender Relations • Gender stereotype • gender trope • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes • gold digger • Great Depression • heart balm • Historical sociology • history of American divorce • Intersectionality • intersection of gender and social class • intersection of race and gender • Jean Harlow • J. Howard Marshall • Kay Laurell • Lee Marvin • male gaze • Marilyn Monroe • marriage crisis • Masculinity Crisis • Michelle Marvin • Michelle Triola • misogyny • Moral Panic • Neoliberalism • no-fault divorce • palimony • Peaches Browning • Peggy Hopkins Joyce • Pierce Marshall • Playboy • postwar economic expansion • postwar gender ideologies • postwar gender relations • pre-code film • prenuptial agreement • Reality Television • Sexual Revolution • Social Class • Sociology of Law • spousal support • Supreme Court • whiteness • White Trash • women’s and gender history • Ziegfeld Follies
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-6029-6 / 1469660296
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-6029-5 / 9781469660295