{"product_id":"9780520391543","title":"Becoming the Ex-Wife : The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Makes an excellent case for Parrott as an unjustly forgotten historical figure.\"—The New Yorker\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Remind[s] us of the brazenly talented women sidelined by convention.\"—New York Times\n\u003cbr\u003e The riveting biography of Ursula Parrott—best-selling author, Hollywood screenwriter, and voice for the modern woman.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Credited with popularizing the label \"ex-wife\" in 1929, Ursula Parrott wrote provocatively about divorcées, career women, single mothers, work-life balance, and a host of new challenges facing modern women. Her best sellers, Hollywood film deals, marriages and divorces, and run-ins with the law made her a household name. Part biography, part cultural history, Becoming the Ex-Wife establishes Parrott's rightful place in twentieth-century American culture, uncovering her neglected work and keen insights into American women's lives during a period of immense social change.\n\u003cbr\u003e  \n\u003cbr\u003e Although she was frequently dismissed as a \"woman's writer,\" reading Parrott's writing today makes it clear that she was a trenchant philosopher of modernity—her work was prescient, anticipating issues not widely raised until decades after her decline into obscurity. With elegant wit and a deft command of the archive, Marsha Gordon tells a timely story about the life of a woman on the front lines of a culture war that is still raging today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48700023111915,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":54.84,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780520391543-1.jpg?v=1781625275","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9780520391543","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}