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From Sensuous to Sexy: The Librarian in Post-Censorship Print Pornography
- Author(s):
- David Squires (see profile)
- Date:
- 2014
- Group(s):
- LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Sexuality Studies, TM Literary Criticism
- Subject(s):
- Twentieth century, Academic libraries--Administration, Academic librarians, United States, Area studies, Public libraries
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- pornography, pulp, 20th century, Academic librarianship, American studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M62Z1S
- Abstract:
- This chapter argues that the sexy librarian stereotype emerged at the end of the twentieth century from the confluence between sexual liberation, free speech movements and print pornography. It focuses on a series of librarian themed pornographic paperbacks published in the 1970s and 1980s by Greenleaf Classics. These stories, although flimsy plot-wise, tend to be obsessed with the idea of liberating stuffy librarians from the shackles of sexual conservatism, thereby dramatizing some of the social struggles surrounding obscenity cases and the move to deregulate print materials.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book chapter
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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