Enter Helen
- Author: Brooke Hauser
- Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 11:30:42
Synopsis
This female Mad Men-like story chronicles the legendary Cosmopolitan magazine editor’s rise to power as both a cultural icon and trailblazer who redefined what it means to be an American woman.
In the mid-Sixties, Helen Gurley Brown, author of the groundbreaking Sex and the Single Girl, took over the ailing Cosmopolitan magazine and revamped it into one of the most successful brands in the world. At a time when magazines taught housewives how to make the perfect casserole, Helen reimagined Cosmo and womanhood itself, championing the independent, ambitious, man-loving single woman. Though she was married, to Hollywood producer David Brown, no one embodied the idea of the Cosmo Girl more than the Ozarks-born Helen, who willed, worked, and—yes—occasionally slept her way to the top, eventually becoming one of the most influential media players in the world.
Drawing on new interviews with Helen’s friends and former colleagues as well as her personal letters, Enter Helen brings New York City vibrantly to life during the Sexual Revolution and the Women’s Movement and features a cast of characters including Hugh Hefner, Nora Ephron, and Gloria Steinem. It is the cinematic story of an icon who bucked convention, defined her own destiny, and became a controversial model for modern feminism, laying the groundwork for television shows like Sex and the City and Girls.
“Bad Feminist” or not, Helen Gurley Brown got people talking—about sex, work, reproductive choices, and having it all—forever changing the conversation.
Chapters
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001 Enter Helen
Duration: 15s -
002 Prologue
Duration: 06min -
003 Chapter 01
Duration: 14min -
004 Chapter 02
Duration: 05min -
005 Chapter 03
Duration: 15min -
006 Chapter 04
Duration: 17min -
007 Chapter 05
Duration: 07min -
008 Chapter 06
Duration: 12min -
009 Chapter 07
Duration: 16min -
010 Chapter 08
Duration: 21min -
011 Chapter 09
Duration: 13min -
012 Chapter 10
Duration: 11min -
013 Chapter 11
Duration: 14min -
014 Chapter 12
Duration: 18min -
015 Chapter 13
Duration: 18min -
016 Chapter 14
Duration: 14min -
017 Chapter 15
Duration: 09min -
018 Chapter 16
Duration: 21min -
019 Chapter 17
Duration: 05min -
020 Chapter 18
Duration: 16min