Wolf-Women and Phantom Ladies: Female Desire in 1940s Us Culture

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1438455801

ISBN13:9781438455808

Release Date:January 2016

Publisher:State University of New York Press

Length:332 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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