EVIL SISTERS. The Threat of Female Sexuality and The Cult of Manhood.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. 1st Edition. Cloth in dust jacket. Light shelfwear, else a clean copy, tight binding; dust jacket has a couple closed tears. Very Good.
Item #7264
ISBN: 0394569458
x+480pp., frontisp., intro., illustrated throughout, bib., index. Braum Dijkstra investigates the idea of woman as a seductress. In many aspects of twentieth-century popular culture, the female came to be portrayed as a regressive, primitive force whose sexuality could destroy the social order, undermining the supremacy of the white male, he shows the devastating historical effects of this portrayal.
Price: $5.50