| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.5

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June Sochen. From Mae to Madonna: Women Entertainers in Twentieth-Century America. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 1999. Pp. 240. $25.00.

June Sochen opines that, as an entity, female entertainers were the first women to capture the public eye. On stage, screen, and television, they redefined their place in twentieth-century society and, in the process, attained a level of financial security virtually unachievable by the rest of the sisterhood. She views the lives of her chosen subjects as multiple, integrated texts whose most important elements are biography, the genre in which they worked, and the societal milieu of the time. They mostly led lives atypical of American women inasmuch as they lived and worked in the public eye, not in the anonymity of home, store, or factory. . . .

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