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A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960 (1st Edition) by Jeanine Basinger Paperback, 542 Pages, Published 1995 ISBN-10: 0-8195-6291-2 / 0819562912 ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6291-3 / 9780819562913 In this highly readable and entertaining book, Jeanine Basinger shows how the "woman's film" of the 30s, 40s, and 50s sent a potent mixed message to millions of female moviegoers. At the same time that such films exhorted women to stick to their "proper" realm of men, marriage, and motherhood, they |