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Author Bronstein, Carolyn

Title Porno Chic and the Sex Wars : American Sexual Representation in The 1970s
Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (380 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Whitney Strub and Carolyn Bronstein; Part I. Films; 1. From Porno Chic to Porno Bleak: Representing the Urban Crisis in 1970s American Pornography; 2. Re-Sexualizing Scrooge: Gender, Spectatorship, and the Subversion of Genre in Shaun Costello's the Passions of Carol; 3. Desiring Desiree; 4. Making Sense of Linda Lovelace; Part II. Magazines/Print Culture; 5. Mass-Market Pornography for Women: Bob Guccione's Viva Magazine and the New Woman of the 1970s
6. The Economic and Racial Politics of Selling a Transfeminine Fantasy in 1970s Niche and Pornographic Print Publications7. "Think about That Special Man Who's on His Way Home to You": Conservative Women's Sexualization of Marriage in the 1970s; 8. "Soft-Core Feminism"?: Playboy, Christie Hefner, and the Feminist Antipornography Movement; Part III. Political Contexts of Pornography; 9. "Handmaiden of the Pornographer," Champion of Free Speech: The American Civil Liberties Union and Sexual Expression in the 1970s and 1980s
10. Feminism Meets Fisting: Antipornography, Sadomasochism, and the Politics of Sex11. Suppressing the Revolt of the Perverts: Gay Activist Filmmaking and the Child Pornography Panic of the Late 1970s; Part IV. Preserving Pornography: History, Memory, Legacy; 12. Bridging the Gap: Adult Video News and the "Long 1970s"; 13. Historical Fantasies: 1970s Gay Male Pornography in the Archives; Afterword. Fading Flesh: Personal Reflections on the Quest to Preserve Hardcore Cinema; Notes on Contributors; Index; Back Cover
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Subject Pornography -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Pornographic films -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Girlie magazines -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Pornography in popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Sex -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Girlie magazines
Pornographic films
Pornography
Pornography in popular culture
Sex
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Strub, Whitney
ISBN 9781613764596
1613764596