Lois Banner est une historienne éminente et une figure fondatrice dans le domaine de l'histoire des femmes. Ses travaux explorent les manières complexes dont les forces historiques, culturelles et sociales ont façonné la vie et les expériences des femmes. L'approche de Banner se caractérise par une recherche rigoureuse et une analyse pointue, mettant en lumière des récits souvent négligés. À travers son œuvre, les lecteurs acquièrent une compréhension plus profonde du passé, soulignant le rôle crucial des perspectives féminines dans la compréhension historique.
Marilyn Monroe died on 5th August, 1962. Since then, the appetite for information about Monroe has proved insatiable. Lois Banner's new biography is revelatory. Banner had access to material no one else has seen, from a trove of personal papers to facts and anecdotes about her childhood and her death. Banner traces the eleven foster homes Marilyn went to, uncovering the sexual abuse she suffered and her bisexuality. She is also the first biographer to read Monroe's psychiatric records, revealing a woman deeply rooted in paradox. No biographer before has attempted to analyse - much less realise - most of these aspects of her personality. Lois Banner has.
Like her art, Marilyn Monroe was rooted in paradox: She was a powerful star and a childlike waif; a joyful, irreverent party girl with a deeply spiritual side; a superb friend and a narcissist; a dumb blonde and an intellectual. No previous biographer has recognized -- much less attempted to analyze -- most of these aspects of her personality. Lois Banner has. Since Marilyn's death in August of 1962, the appetite for information about her has been insatiable. Biographies of Marilyn abound, and whether these books are sensational or flawed, Marilyn's fans have always come out in bestselling numbers. This time, with Lois Banner's Revelations, the fans won't be disappointed. This is no retread of recycled material. As one of the founders of the field of women's history, Banner will reveal Marilyn Monroe in the way that only a top-notch historian and biographer could. In researching Revelations, Banner's credentials opened doors. She gained access to Marilyn intimates who hadn't spoken to other biographers, and to private material unseen, ignored, or misinterpreted by her predecessors. With new details about Marilyn's childhood foster homes, her sexual abuse, her multiple marriages, her affairs, and her untimely death at the age of thirty-six, Revelations is, at last, the nuanced biography Marilyn fans have been waiting for.
The relationship between anthropologists Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict is revealed here, with details of their unconventional sexual relationship and their efforts to combat sexism, racism, xenophobia, and homophobia. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
Ideal Beauty reveals the woman behind the Garbo mystique, a tough negotiator who used her newfound power in Hollywood to develop a distinctly new feminist screen persona. Examining how she was an icon who helped to define female beauty in the twentieth century, the book also considers Garbo's spiritual and sexual exploration away from the camera's glare.
Najpełniejsza biografia Marilyn Monroe, na którą czekali wszyscy fani, wydana specjalnie na 50. rocznicę śmierci gwiazdy! Kim naprawdę była Norma Jeane Baker? Jaka jest prawdziwa historia jej krótkiego i bujnego życia? Czy była skrzywdzoną kobietą, która nigdy nie odnalazła szczęścia? A może przebiegłą kokietką, która bez skrupułów wykorzystywała swoje atuty, aby zdobyć władzę i pieniądze? Nieznane nikomu fakty z życia gwiazdy, przyjaciele, którzy przemówili po raz pierwszy. Odtajnione dokumenty odkryją najgłębiej skrywane tajemnice z życia Marilyn.
