Click Here to Read: Marilyn Monroe: proto-feminist? As the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death approaches, Lois Banner argues in this extract from her new book that the star – complex and powerful – had many qualities associated with the women’s movement by Lois Banner on the guardian.co.uk website on July 21, 2012 .
Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis