American Gold Digger
Marriage, Money, and the Law from the Ziegfeld Follies to Anna Nicole Smith
290 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 16 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6028-8
Published: November 2020 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-6027-1
Published: November 2020 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-6029-5
Published: October 2020
Gender and American Culture
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This fascinating interdisciplinary work reveals the assumptions and disputes around women's sexual agency in American life, shedding new light on the cultural and legal forces underpinning romantic, sexual, and marital relationships.
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"Donovan demonstrates how the gold digger stereotype emerged and reappeared over the course of the twentieth century as both comic relief and grave threat to the family. Donovan’s attention to the racial politics of the gold digger stereotype mark an important contribution to histories that link the production of heterosexuality with the history of racial formation."--Rebecca L. Davis, author of More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss
"Brian Donovan has found a surprisingly original subject; the gold digger clearly deserves her time in the historical spotlight. Donovan is a first-rate storyteller--American Gold Digger successfully walks the line between analytical rigor and ease of reading."--Kristin Celello, author of Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States