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Wolf-Women and Phantom Ladies : Female Desire in 1940s US Culture / Steven Dillon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dillon, Steven, 1960-
- Series:
- SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
- SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Sexual behavior--Psychological aspects.
- Women.
- Women in popular culture.
- Desire in literature.
- Women in literature.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, [New York] : SUNY Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitlePopular 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, and popular music. In addition to popular works, Steven Dillon discusses many lesser-known texts and artists, including Ella Mae Morse, a key figure in the founding of Capitol Records, and Lisa Ben, creator of the first lesbian magazine in the United States.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Sexual visibility, or, The duel in the sun
- Diana Trilling, female desire, and the study of popular culture
- The waiting room: female desire in women's wartime fiction
- He-wolves and she-wolves: from Tex Avery to Jackson Pollock
- Phantom ladies: on the radio and out of the closet
- White female desire wearing the masks of color
- What young women want: from high school to college
- The power and the horror: male and female cultural spaces
- Conclusion. Two phantom women: Ruth Herschberger and Elizabeth Hawes.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438455815
- 143845581X
- OCLC:
- 905221614
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