Pin-Up Grrrls

Provides the history of the pin-up since its birth, revealing how its development is intimately connected to the history of feminism. This book documents the genre's history with more than 100 illustrations, and explores how female sex symbols, including Adah Isaacs Menken and Lydia Thompson, fought to exert control over their own images.

Autorentext
Maria Elena Buszek

Klappentext
This richly illustrated history of the pin-up since its birth more than 150 years ago reveals how the development of the pin-up is intimately connected to the history of feminism

Inhalt
Acknowledgments ix
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 Siècle 69
3. The Return of the Theatrical Feminism: Early-Twentieth-Century Pin-Ups on the State, 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 Wake of Women's Liberation 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
Conclusion/Commencement 355
Notes 365
Bibliography 403
Index 437

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