TY - BOOK AU - Rabinovitz,Lauren TI - For the love of pleasure: women, movies, and culture in turn-of-the-century Chicago SN - 9780813525341 AV - PN 1995.9 R116f 1998 U1 - 791.43/082/0977311 PY - 1998/// CY - New Brunswick, N.J. PB - Rutgers University Press KW - Motion pictures and women KW - Women in motion pictures KW - Mujeres en el cine KW - Mujeres en la industria cinematográfica KW - Women KW - Illinois KW - Chicago KW - Social conditions KW - Popular culture KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Cultura popular KW - Historia KW - Chicago (Illinois) KW - Culture in motion pictures KW - Cultura en el cine KW - Chicago (Ill.) KW - Chicago (Estados Unidos) KW - Condiciones sociales N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction One: Women and Sightseeing Two: Movies and Their Places of Amusement Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography General Index Film Index N2 - The period from the 1880s until the 1920s saw the making of a consumer society, the inception of the technological, economic, and social landscape in which we currently live. Cinema played a key role in the changing urban landscape. For working-class women, it became a refuge from the factory. For middle-class women, it presented a new language of sexual danger and pleasure. Women found greater freedom in big cities, entering the workforce in record numbers and moving about unchaperoned in public spaces. Turn-of-the-century Chicago surpassed even New York as a proving ground for pleasure and education, attracting women workers at three times the national rate. Using Chicago as a model, Lauren Rabinovitz analyzes the rich interplay among demographic, visual, historical, and theoretical materials of the period. She skillfully links cinema theory and women's studies for a fuller understanding of cultural history. She also demonstrates how cinema dramatically affected social conventions, ultimately shaping modern codes of masculinity and feminity ER -