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The paper discusses sexual politics and a woman's place during the era in which the film "The Women" is set. The paper identifies the metaphors in the film that depict female types, specifically, the female as an animal.

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"The film "The Women" provides a fascinating look into the private world of American society women just prior to World War II. Though the film has a comical light-hearted tone, it serves as a historical account of the evolution of gender politics in the first half of the twentieth century. In writing "The Women", Clare Booth Luce was taking aim at her own gender making a social statement about socialites and working women and revealing the not so pretty layers underneath the outer..."

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