Dillon Wolf-Women and Phantom Ladies Wolf-Women and Phantom Ladies

Female Desire in 1940s US Culture
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5581-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dillon, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Sexual Visibility, or, The Duel in the Sun

2. Diana Trilling, Female Desire, and the Study of Popular Culture

3. The Waiting Room: Female Desire in Women’s Wartime Fiction

4. He-Wolves and She-Wolves: From Tex Avery to Jackson Pollock

5. Phantom Ladies: On the Radio and Out of the Closet

6. White Female Desire Wearing the Masks of Color

7. What Young Women Want: From High School to College

8. The Power and the Horror: Male and Female Cultural Spaces

Conclusion. Two Phantom Women: Ruth Herschberger and Elizabeth Hawes

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Steven Dillon is Professor of English at Bates College and the author of Derek Jarman and Lyric Film: The Mirror and the Sea and The Solaris Effect: Art and Artifice in Contemporary American Film.