Jayne Mansfield and the American fifties by Martha Saxton

Houghton Mifflin, 1975-01-01. hardcover. Good. 8x5x0.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1975. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1975. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Houghton Mifflin, 1975. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Houghton Mifflin, 1975. Hardcover. Good.

NY Houghton Mifflin 1975.. vg+/vg+/dj. has minute & light wear. sm. piece miss. bott. sp. The life & times of the doomed sex goddess. 24 photos. 1st edition. Binding is cl.w.dj.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975. xix, 223pp, bw ills. Or red cloth in jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket including several tiny tears and chips. Biography of Jayne Mansfield and a not always fond backward look at America of the 1950s.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Houghton Mifflin. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Name inscribed FLEP, Pages 163 – 188 bottom corner fold corrected else content appears as unblemished with fine white, brown deocrated boards displaying no significant surface/edge wear, as shown.
Kirkus Review: Jayne Mansfield, you'd better believe, "is hard on a feminist." To say the least. And yet Saxton looks at her life and her career as the '50's ultimate sex-object from a feminist perspective, managing at the same time considerable sympathy for the woman whose entire identity was a 40-inch bust. By the time Jayne was in high school she had succumbed to the sexual values of her period and, lacking that certain je ne sais quoi called "personality," believed that "putting out" was the only way left to be popular and get ahead. Without a pang of guilt or doubt Jayne exploited her body to achieve success; at the height of her stardom she used her physical endowments to "promote" clothes, furniture, groceries and airline tickets. Her ambition was not to be an actress but a "personality" and she was… Read More

Houghton Mifflin, 1975-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!