feminism, sexuality, popular culture
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Buszek, Maria Elena
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2006
- Thesaurus
- films, filmsterren, theater, vrouwbeelden, meiden, emancipatie, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Beginning with the pin-up's origins in mid-nineteenth-century 'carte-de-visite' photographs of burlesque performers, Buszek explores how female sex symbols, including Adah Isaacs Menken and Lydia Thompson, fought to exert control over their own images. Buszek analyzes the evolution of the pin-up through the advent of the New Woman, the suffrage movement, fanzine photographs of early film stars, the Varga Girl illustrations that appeared in Esquire during World War II, the early years of Playboy magazine, and the recent revival of the genre in appropriations by third-wave feminist artists.