It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, The Postwar Pulps
"A panorama of lurid vintage covers and magazine layouts as well as acerbic insightful narratives from Parfrey... a sprawling, well-endowed retrospective of unbridled virility and lost mid-20th century American culture."—Spin
"A panorama of lurid vintage covers and magazine layouts as well as acerbic insightful narratives from Parfrey... a sprawling, well-endowed retrospective of unbridled virility and lost mid-20th century American culture."—Spin
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780922915811 (0922915814)
Publish date: May 1st 2003
Publisher: Feral House
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
It's a Man's World pays tribute to to the American men's magazines that were tremendously popular from the 1950s through the early 1970s. These magazines were highly formulaic and catered to a particular brand of masculinity that became increasingly sexual and increasingly violent as time went on. T...