Perversions: Deviant Readings by Mandy MerckIn this series of provocative essays on culture, art, and film, former Screen editor Mandy Merck explores the paradoxes of sexual representation. Whether writing on romantic fiction or hardcore pornography, on robots or sex goddesses, Radclyffe Hall or the Marquis de Sade, she finds the perversions and deviances. Illustrated. |
Contents
| 13 | |
The critical cult of Dora | 33 |
A case of AIDS | 45 |
Marilyn Monroe by Gloria Steinem | 61 |
a century | 86 |
Portrait of a marriage? | 101 |
The Amazons of ancient Athens | 121 |
Lianna and the lesbians of art cinema | 162 |
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