Pin-Up Grrrls Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture

Name: Pin-Up Grrrls Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture
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ISBN: 9780822337461

ISBN-10: 0822337460

ISBN-13: 9780822337461

Edition: 2006

Authors: Maria Elena Buszek

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Subverting stereotypical images of women, a new generation of feminist artists is remaking the pin-up, much as Annie Sprinkle, Cindy Sherman, and others did in the 1970s and 1980s. As shocking as contemporary feminist pin-ups are intended to be, perhaps more surprising is that the pin-up has been appropriated by women for their own empowerment since its inception more than a century ago. "Pin-Up Grrrls" tells the history of the pin-up from its birth, revealing how its development is intimately connected to the history of feminism. Maria Elena Buszek documents the genre's 150-year history with more than 100 illustrations, many never before published. Beginning with the pin-up's origins in…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 5/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.41" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.496



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Defining/Defending the "Feminist Pin-Up"



Representing "Awarishness": The Theatrical Origins of the Feminist Pin-Up Girl



New Women for the New Century: Feminism and the Pin-Up at the Fin de Siecle



The Return of Theatrical Feminism: Early-Twentieth-Century Pin-Ups on the Stage, Street, and Screen



Celebrating the "Kind of Girl Who Dominates": Film Fanzines and the Feminist Pin-Up



New Frontiers: Sex, Women, and World War II



Pop Goes the Pin-Up: New Roles and Readings in the Postwar Era



Our Bodies/Ourselves: Pin-Ups in the Wake of Women's Liberation



From Womyn to Grrrls: The Postmodern Feminist Pin-Up


Conclusion/Commencement


Notes


Bibliography


Index