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Article: Grrrls and Womyn.(Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture )(Book review)
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- The Women's Review of Books
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture
By Maria Elena Buszek
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006, 445 pp., $24.95, paperback
Depending on your age, the title of Maria Elena Buszek's new book will conjure up either a fierce reclamation of a kitschy icon or a lightweight embrace of a problematic emblem of womanhood. Fortunately, Pin-Up Grrrls is neither. Sassy title aside, it is a serious work by a thoughtful, knowledgeable, and passionate scholar. Buszek, an assistant professor of art history at the Kansas City Art Institute, uses the enduring medium of the pin-up to explore in great depth the history of female sexuality ...