Provides encyclopedic coverage of female sexuality in 1940s popular culture. 2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Popular culture in the 1940s is organized as

Defying industry logic and gender expectations, women started flocking to see horror films in the early 1940s. The departure of the young male audience and the

When she married forty-nine-year-old President Grover Cleveland in a White House ceremony on June 2, 1886, Frances Folsom Cleveland was only twenty-one years ol

In this lively book, Stacy Wolf illuminates the women of American musical theater--performers, creators, and characters--from the start of the cold war to the p

A colorful ethnography of an Italian ladies' club, this book explores the historical and linguistic importance of the women's language and behavior.