A historical view on the limits of feminism-as-genre

Rebecca J. Sheehan

A historical view on the limits of feminism-as-genre

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Abstract

This is a contribution to Doing Film Feminisms in the Age of Popular Feminism: A Roundtable Convened by Claire Perkins and Jodi Brooks. The contribution examines the contradictory expectations women directors faced in 1970s Hollywood as a way of understanding the contemporary limits of "feminist" films.

Original language	English
Journal	Australian Feminist Studies
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 28 Nov 2023

Keywords

Women directors
Feminism

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