“Consuming the Centerfold” is a cultural history that forefronts the perspectives and agency of sexually marginalized groups as they navigated the rapid cultural changes transpiring in the second half of the twentieth century. This dissertation analyses five sexually provocative magazines made by and for those other than heterosexual white men. Duke (1957), Drum (1964-1969), Playgirl (1973-1977), MsTique (1974-1976), and On Our Backs (1984-1994) each worked to construct newly visible and distinctive sexual identities for their respective audiences of Black men, gay men, white women, Black women, and lesbians. “Consuming the Centerfold” argues that the consumption of sexual imagery was a critical tool for marginalized groups seeking to const...
In the American imagination, the South is a place both sexually open and closed, outwardly chaste an...
Concerned with countering racist images, black newspapers historically functioned as public relation...
Tracing a cultural history from the 1970s to the 1990s, Obscene Gestures places popular and legal no...
This dissertation considers how heterosexual women\u27s sexual pleasure was negotiated in the popula...
In this thesis, I provide an analysis of 1960s American popular culture by examining Playboy, The P...
vii, 302 leavesThis dissertation, "Dangerously Sensual: The Sexual Revolution, Feminism, and Grrl Po...
My dissertation examines the practice of cruising for sex, as it is represented in the work of lesbi...
This dissertation explores the multiple and varied representations of gender and sexuality in the ma...
Restricted until 12 Feb. 2012.This dissertation argues that in the years between 1968 and 1976 group...
This thesis explores the treatment of female sexual pleasure throughout the second half of the twent...
Pornography has become a central issue to feminism in the last ten years. This dissertation examines...
Focusing on the period known as the Harlem Renaissance circa 1920-1930, this study explores various ...
This thesis explores the social construction of female sexuality in popular women's magazines and dr...
This dissertation examines how marginalized subjects have altered rigid structures of class, race, s...
American Insides: Popular Narrative and the Historiography of Sexuality, 1674–1815 takes as its focu...
In the American imagination, the South is a place both sexually open and closed, outwardly chaste an...
Concerned with countering racist images, black newspapers historically functioned as public relation...
Tracing a cultural history from the 1970s to the 1990s, Obscene Gestures places popular and legal no...
This dissertation considers how heterosexual women\u27s sexual pleasure was negotiated in the popula...
In this thesis, I provide an analysis of 1960s American popular culture by examining Playboy, The P...
vii, 302 leavesThis dissertation, "Dangerously Sensual: The Sexual Revolution, Feminism, and Grrl Po...
My dissertation examines the practice of cruising for sex, as it is represented in the work of lesbi...
This dissertation explores the multiple and varied representations of gender and sexuality in the ma...
Restricted until 12 Feb. 2012.This dissertation argues that in the years between 1968 and 1976 group...
This thesis explores the treatment of female sexual pleasure throughout the second half of the twent...
Pornography has become a central issue to feminism in the last ten years. This dissertation examines...
Focusing on the period known as the Harlem Renaissance circa 1920-1930, this study explores various ...
This thesis explores the social construction of female sexuality in popular women's magazines and dr...
This dissertation examines how marginalized subjects have altered rigid structures of class, race, s...
American Insides: Popular Narrative and the Historiography of Sexuality, 1674–1815 takes as its focu...
In the American imagination, the South is a place both sexually open and closed, outwardly chaste an...
Concerned with countering racist images, black newspapers historically functioned as public relation...
Tracing a cultural history from the 1970s to the 1990s, Obscene Gestures places popular and legal no...