Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna
- ISBN-10
- 0822317486
- ISBN-13
- 9780822317487
- Series
- Guilty Pleasures
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 195
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Author
- Pamela Robertson
Description
Using detailed studies of stars such as Mae West, Joan Crawford and Madonna, Guilty Pleasures examines the tradition of feminist camp - a female form of aestheticism related to masquerade and rooted in burlesque, parallel but different to gay male camp.
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