Word: males
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crucial viewpoint to the University, especially when it must deal with pressing issues ranging from minority faculty hiring to admission of Asian-Americans. Now, the Corporation has two empty seats it can use to bring in a woman or minority and end its existence as an all-white male committee made up of representatives from the old boy network...
...Loos did submit her first script under the gender neutral name of A. Loos because she had heard that male writers get paid better. And throughout her career, Loos was at the mercy of the whims and prejudices of the producers, almost exclusively male, who ran Hollywood and Broadway...
Carey also seems uninterested in Loos' own attitudes towards feminism. Though Loos is undoubtedly a role model for many women, she didn't see herself as a pioneer, nor was she particularly interested in the political situation of women. Loos did not quibble with the biases of a male-dominated industry. She simply played the game no matter how sexist the rules may have been...
Loos never believed men could fully understand women, yet, paradoxically, her own delineation of the feminine perspective was stereotypical, taking its cues from traditional male depictions. She was a woman working in a man's business, but Carey does not explore the incongruities that situation presented her as a writer...
...early days both behind the screen and as actresses were impressive and important. Carey's thorough, fact-filled account of Loos' career is a useful overview of one woman's career. But it lacks depth or an ability to evaluate the significance of a woman's contribution to a male industry. A book that treats these issues with thoughtful analysis and a broader perspective has yet to be written. Carey's account is but a useful chronicle for that future historian...