Evil Sisters: The Threat of Female Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Culture by Bram Dijkstra

Evil Sisters: The Threat of Female Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Culture

Bram Dijkstra

480 pages • first pub 1998 (editions) user-added

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Bram Dijkstra begins this analysis with the 1915 silent film A Fool There Was, in which Theda Bara first embodied our century's vision of the Vamp--kohl-eyed and predatory, seducing respectable men and destroying them with her voracious appetite. ...

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