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... the movie woman’s world is designed to remind us that a woman may live in a mansion, an apartment, or a yurt, but it’s all the same thing because what she really lives in is the body of a woman, and that body is allowed to occupy space only according to the dictates of polite society.
Author: Basinger, Jeanine
Categories: movies; oppression of women; manners and social customs
Attribution: Jeanine Basinger (b. 1936), U.S. movie and social historian. A Woman’s View, ch. 7 (1993).
