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Title:

It's a man's world : men's adventure magazines, the postwar pulps / edited by Adam Parfrey ; contributors, Bruce Jay Friedman, Josh Alan Friedman, Mort Künstler, Norman Saunders, David Saunders, Bill Devine.

Edition:

Expanded edition.

Publisher:

Feral House,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

311 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Men's magazines--History--20th century.
Men's magazines--Social aspects.
Magazine covers--20th century.
Pulp literature--20th century.
Magazine illustration--20th century--Pictorial works.

Other Authors:

Parfrey, Adam, 1957- editor.

Other Titles:

It's a man's world (Parfrey)

Contents:

Manufacturing the enemy -- From pulp to posterity: the origins of men's adventure magazines -- Even the rhinos were nymphos -- Throw 'em a few hot words -- The illustrators -- Norman Saunders and the evolution of men's magazine illustration -- Illustrating for men's magazines -- American history -- War against nature -- Exotica -- World War II -- The sadistic burlesque -- The cold war -- The war comes home -- Devine's guide to men's adventure magazines.

Summary:

It's a Man's World was first released in 2003 to critical acclaim and was featured on the cover of the Los Angeles Times Book Review and in the New York Times. This rich collection, filled with interviews, essays, and color reproductions of testosterone-heavy thirty-five-cent magazines with names like Man's Exploits, Rage, and Escape to Adventure (to name a few), illustrates the culture created to help veterans confront the confusion of jobs, girls, and the Cold War on their return from World War II and the Korean War. The expanded paperback edition includes wartime illustrations and advertisements from mass-produced magazines that preview the xenophobia and racist ideas later seen throughout men's adventure magazines of the '50s and '60s-- Website.

ISBN:

1627310118
9781627310116

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)