Steven Dillon

Wolf-women and Phantom Ladies: Female Desire in 1940s Us Culture Steven Dillon

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Review Quotes: This exciting book presents a truly capacious understanding of US culture and offers a spectacular array of analyses of how the decade s cultural discourse struggled to define female desire and how so much male literature and filmmaking sought to constrain it. Dillon s study will teach scholars of modern American literature and culture a great deal more about the 1940s than they already know or think they know. It is a brilliant addition to the field. Gordon Hutner, author of "What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920 1960""Biographical Note: Steven Dillon is Professor of English at Bates College and the author of "Derek Jarman and Lyric Film: The Mirror and the Sea" and "The Solaris Effect: Art and Artifice in Contemporary American Film."Table of Contents: Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Sexual Visibility, or, The Duel in the Sun 2. Diana Trilling, Female Desire, and the Study of Popular Culture 3. The Waiting Room: Female Desire in Women's Wartime Fiction 4. He-Wolves and She-Wolves: From Tex Avery to Jackson Pollock 5. Phantom Ladies: On the Radio and Out of the Closet 6. White Female Desire Wearing the Masks of Color 7. What Young Women Want: From High School to College 8. The Power and the Horror: Male and Female Cultural Spaces Conclusion. Two Phantom Women: Ruth Herschberger and Elizabeth Hawes Notes Selected Bibliography Index Contributor Bio:  Dillon, Steven Steven Dillon has been writing philosophical treatises for over five years, spending time in a Roman Catholic seminary where he majored in philosophy. He works as a Certified Nursing Assistant at a nursing home, and lives with his wife in South Dakota.