Richard Allen

INTRODUCTION: ON IMAGINING WOMEN This book is about women's images and images of women. It addresses writing and reading, creativity and imagination, image making and interpretation, subjectivity and self-representation. The title, Imagining Women, was chosen (as were the others in the series)...

rowing up, we both recall being fascinated by the ] movie posters that hung in the lobbies of our hometown Bijoux. Week after week, those sheets of colossal artwork, punchy color, and urgent copy propelled us straight to the box office. Each of us had been Hollywood's patsy too often to believe...