Sochen, Mae West - She Who Laughs, Lasts

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  • Barbara Steinson DePauw University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33043/TH.19.2.98-99

Abstract

June Sochen's Mae West: She Who Laughs, Lasts, a concise and well-written biography, explores Mae West's career within the context of early twentieth-century entertainment, women performers, and popular attitudes toward female sexuality. Sochen relied extensively on newspaper clippings, show business periodicals, censorship cases, and West's autobiography, Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It (1959). Given Sochen's focus and the nature of her sources, it is hardly surprising that the private Mae West rarely emerges in this study.

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Published

1994-09-01

How to Cite

Steinson, Barbara. 1994. “Sochen, Mae West - She Who Laughs, Lasts”. Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 19 (2):98-99. https://doi.org/10.33043/TH.19.2.98-99.

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Vol. 19 No. 2 (1994)

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Copyright (c) 1994 Barbara J. Steinson

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