Signs of wear and consistent use.

Signs of wear and consistent use.

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Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 480 p. Audience: General/trade.

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 480 p. Audience: General/trade.

Size: 9x6x1; A nice hardcover in a protective Mylar sleeve with a crisp dust

Size: 9x6x1; A nice hardcover in a protective Mylar sleeve with a crisp dust jacket, a tight binding and an unmarked text. From a private smoke free collection. Shipping within 24 hours a tracking number and delivery confirmation.

Size: 6x1x9; Stated First Edition, 1996. No additional printings/editions

Size: 6x1x9; Stated First Edition, 1996. No additional printings/editions listed. Very good hardcover with DJ, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; very minimal wear yo black cloth boards, silver gilt titling on spine is bright and bold. Text is very good throughout. Interior appears free of markings. Unclipped dust jacket is very good, fully intact, no chips or tears. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Size: 6x1x9; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean,

Size: 6x1x9; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. "Bram Dijkstra's new book, ten years in work, is a stunning inquiry into the idea of woman as seductress: how, in many areas of twentieth-century high and popular culture, the female came to be portrayed as a regressive, primitive force whose sexuality could destroy the social order, undermining the supremacy of the white male-and shows the devastating historical effects of this portrayal. Dijkstra begins his 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, predatory, seducing respectable men and destroying them with her voracious appetite. The part played by turn-of-the-century biologists, gynecologists, psychologists, geneticists, and sociologists in helping to develop distorted ideas of gender, sex, and race is examined. And Dijkstra shows how these distortions have been reflected in painting; in popular and literary fiction, from Bram Stoker's Dracula to the novels of Conrad, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner; and in cinema's femmes fatales, from Louise Brooks, Garbo, and Dietrich to the fatal women of the 1990s. Finally, the book makes shockingly clear how the parallel paths of the new style of misogyny and racism merged in the 1920s during the rise of nationalist politics-converging in Hitler's Mein Kampf and the politics of genocide."