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One of the silver screen’s greatest beauties, Greta Garbo was also one of its most profound enigmas. A star in both silent pictures and talkies, Garbo kept viewers riveted with understated performances that suggested deep melancholy and strong desires roiling just under the surface. And offscreen, the intensely private Garbo was perhaps even more mysterious and alluring, as her retirement from Hollywood at age thirty-six only fueled the public’s fascination.  Ideal Beauty reveals the woman behind the mystique, a woman who overcame an impoverished childhood to become a student at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Academy, an actress in European films, and ultimately a Hollywood star. Chronicling her tough negotiations with Louis B. Mayer at MGM, it shows how Garbo carved out enough power in Hollywood to craft a distinctly new feminist screen presence in films like Queen Christina. Banner draws on over ten years of in-depth archival research in Sweden, Germany, France, and the United States to demonstrate how, away from the camera’s glare, Garbo’s life was even more intriguing. Ideal Beauty takes a fresh look at an icon who helped to define female beauty in the twentieth century and provides answers to much-debated questions about Garbo’s childhood, sexuality, career, illnesses and breakdowns, and spiritual awakening.Â
A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century
American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth
Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when
Mead was a student, Benedict a teacher. They became sexual partners
(though both married), and pioneered in the then male-dominated
discipline of anthropology. They championed racial and sexual
equality and cultural relativity despite the generally racist,
xenophobic, and homophobic tenor of their era. Mead's best-selling
"Coming of Age in Samoa" (1928) and "Sex and Temperament in Three
Primitive Societies" (1935), and Benedict's" Patterns of Culture
"(1934), " Race "(1940), ""and" The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
"(1946), were landmark studies that ensured the lasting prominence
and influence of their authors in the field of anthropology and
beyond. "From the Hardcover edition."
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