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Pin-up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture » (1st Edition)

Authors: Maria Elena Buszek
ISBN-13: 9780822337461, ISBN-10: 0822337460
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date Published: May 2006
Edition: 1st Edition

Maria Elena Buszek is Assistant Professor of Art History at the Kansas City Art Institute and a regular contributor to Bust magazine.

A visual history about how feminist artists have appropriated and incorporated the signification of the pin-up genre within their own work.

	Introduction : defining/defending the "feminist pin-up"	1
1	Representing "awarishness" : the theatrical origins of the feminist pin-up girl	27
2	New women for the new century : feminism and the pin-up at the fin de siecle	69
3	The return of theatrical feminism : early-twentieth-century pin-ups on the stage, street, and screen	115
4	Celebrating the "kind of girl who dominates" : film fanzines and the feminist pin-up	142
5	New frontiers : sex, women, and World War II	185
6	Pop goes the pin-up : new roles and readings in the postwar era	232
7	Our bodies/ourselves : pin-ups in the wake of women's liberation	268
8	From womyn to grrrls : the postmodern feminist pin-up	311