LoginWolf-Women and Phantom Ladies: Female Desire in 1940s US Culture (SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory)
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Provides encyclopedic coverage of female sexuality in 1940s popular culture.
2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Popular culture in the 1940s is organized as patriarchal theater. Men gaze upon, evaluate, and coerce women, who are obliged in their turn to put themselves on sexual display. In such a thoroughly patriarchal society, what happens to female sexual desire? Wolf-Women and Phantom Ladies unearths this female desire by conducting a panoramic survey of 1940s culture that analyzes popular novels, daytime radio serials, magazines and magazine fiction, marital textbooks, Hollywood and educational films, jungle comics, an
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Manufacturer: SUNY Press
Release date: 1 April 2015
ISBN-10 : 1438455798 | ISBN-13: 9781438455792
Release date: 1 April 2015
ISBN-10 : 1438455798 | ISBN-13: 9781438455792
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