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The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It Audiobook, by Joanna Scutts Play Audiobook Sample

The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It Audiobook

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Read By: C. S. E. Cooney Publisher: Tantor Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: November 2017 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781541479944

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

14

Longest Chapter Length:

55:52 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

05:43 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

43:45 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

From flapper to Feminine Mystique, here is a cultural history of single women in the city through the reclaimed life of glamorous guru Marjorie Hillis.

Despite multiple waves of feminist revolution, today’s single woman is still mired in judgment or, worse, pity. But for one brief exclamatory period in the 1930s, she was all the rage. Marjorie Hillis was working at Vogue when she published the radical self-help book Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman. With Dorothy Parker–esque wit, she urged spinsters, divorcees, and old maids to shed derogatory labels, and her philosophy became a phenomenon. From the importance of a peignoir to the joy of breakfast in bed (alone), Hillis’s tips made single life desirable and chic. Now, historian and critic Joanna Scutts reclaims Hillis as the queen of the “Live-Aloners” and explores the turbulent decades that followed, when the status of these “brazen ladies” peaked and then collapsed. The Extra Woman follows Hillis and others like her who forged their independent paths before the 1950s saw them trapped behind picket fences yet again. 8 pages of illustrations

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About C. S. E. Cooney

C. S. E. Cooney is a writer, actor, poet, and singer-songwriter. She narrates for Podcastle, the world’s first audio fantasy magazine; Uncanny Magazine, an online science fiction and fantasy magazine; and the poetry journals Goblin Fruit and Stone Telling.