03023cam a2200469 a 4500 1655498 BJBSDDR 20250529121537.0 ta 971015s1998 njua b 001 0 eng 97045724 9780813525341 0813525349 DLC DLC DLC eng eng n-us-il PN 1995.9 R116f 1998 791.43/082/0977311 Rabinovitz, Lauren, 1950- 41861 For the love of pleasure : women, movies, and culture in turn-of-the-century Chicago / Lauren Rabinovitz. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1998. iv, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction One: Women and Sightseeing Two: Movies and Their Places of Amusement Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography General Index Film Index The period from the 1880s until the 1920s saw the making of a consumer society, the inception of the technological, economic, and social landscape in which we currently live. Cinema played a key role in the changing urban landscape. For working-class women, it became a refuge from the factory. For middle-class women, it presented a new language of sexual danger and pleasure. Women found greater freedom in big cities, entering the workforce in record numbers and moving about unchaperoned in public spaces. Turn-of-the-century Chicago surpassed even New York as a proving ground for pleasure and education, attracting women workers at three times the national rate. Using Chicago as a model, Lauren Rabinovitz analyzes the rich interplay among demographic, visual, historical, and theoretical materials of the period. She skillfully links cinema theory and women's studies for a fuller understanding of cultural history. She also demonstrates how cinema dramatically affected social conventions, ultimately shaping modern codes of masculinity and feminity. Motion pictures and women. Women in motion pictures. Mujeres en el cine 11551 Mujeres en la industria cinematográfica 34218 Women Illinois Chicago Social conditions. Popular culture Illinois Chicago History 19th century. Popular culture Illinois Chicago History 20th century. Cultura popular Historia Chicago (Illinois) 42392 Culture in motion pictures. Cultura en el cine 22730 Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions. Chicago (Estados Unidos) Condiciones sociales 7986 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 19 y-gencatlg lcc BK rmza 123329 123329 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2025-05-02 0 PN 1995.9 R116f 1998 00000188857 2025-05-02 00:00:00 1 2025-05-02 BK