In this entertaining and informative book, Helen Taylor is the first to seek reasons for Gone With the Wind's success among viewers and readers. The author asked fans to relate their experiences with the work, to explain their fascination with the story, and describe its impact. She not only explains the enduring appeal of the work, but also identifies different kinds of response at particular historical moments (especially World War II) and through the past five decades by women of different classes, races, and generations. The result is a book that is sophisticated, accessible, and revealing. Scarlett's Women is a book for every fan, and for all students of film and popular culture.

Acknowledgments
1. The Phenomenal Gone With the Wind
2. Scarlett's Women: Gone With the Wind in Living Memory
3. The Woman Who Started it All: 'Margaret Mitchell of Atlanta'
4. Scarlett Woman: The Undisputed Heroine
5. The King and the Wimp: The Gone With the Wind Men
6. Tomorrow is Another Day: Gone With the Wind's Ambiguous Ending
7. The Mammy of Them All: Gone With the Wind and Race
8. Looking Back and Forward: Gone With the Wind, History and Heritage
Afterword
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index