A world made sexy
Subtitle: Freud to Madonna
By: Paul Rutherford.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780802094667; 9780802092564
Subjects: Erotica -- History; Sex in advertising -- History; Sex in popular culture -- History; Sex in mass media -- History; Sex -- Social aspects; Pornography -- History; Sexual freedom
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-348) and index.
Table of contents: title: The sex museum; title: History as past pornography; title: The voyeur's gaze; title: The radical Freud; title: Reich's sexual revolution; title: Marcuse's utopia of eros; title: The wisdom of Ernest Dichter; title: The secret life of Salvador Dalí (1942); title: The Maidenform woman; title: The early Playboy; title: Fetish Barbie; title: The imagery of pop art; title: The mechanical bride (1951); title: The system of objects (1968); title: Subliminal seduction (1973); title: Killing us softly (1979); title: The Bond saga; title: Madonna's rise; title: Erotic trajectories; title: Displays of sin; title: Fables of lust; title: Audiences and impacts; title: Sexy posters.