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Article: Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television
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- Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Autumn 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television. Elana Levine. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. 320 pp. $79.95 hbk. $22.95 pbk.
The 1970s, Elana Levine argues, ushered in a new era in U.S. television. Teenage runaways negotiated sexual danger. Soap-opera rape reached an all-time high. Farrah Fawcett-Majors, with her "gravity-defying" hair and Barbie-doll looks, was the idol of young girls, and Wonder Woman defined female power in a costume that accentuated her cleavage.
According to Levine, Americans were "wallowing in sex" as never before during the 1970s-at least on television. "The new sexual culture of 1970s television left a legacy for the way American ...