Come Up and See Me Sometime: Mae West and the Making of a Feminist Icon
Before Madonna struck a pose, Mae West struck a match.
She was the original provocateur — arrested for writing about sex, banned from Broadway for celebrating desire, and censored by Hollywood for refusing to play nice. Yet through wit, glamour, and sheer audacity, she rewrote the rules of womanhood on screen and off.
Come Up and See Me Sometime: Mae West and the Making of a Feminist Icon traces how one woman’s defiance shaped modern feminism, queer aesthetics, and the art of female self-invention.