Wolf-women and phantom ladies : female desire in 1940s us culture

Provides encyclopedic coverage of female sexuality in 1940s popular culture. 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...

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Main Author: Dillon, Steven
Format: EBOOK
Language:ENGLISH
Published: State University of New York Press 2015
Series:SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
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