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Author Archives: Miranda Corcoran

Atom Bombs and Beauty Queens: Female Sexuality and the Iconography of Destruction

By Miranda Corcoran

In the mid-twentieth century, women’s bodies found themselves altered in strange ways by the ubiquity of radiation and attendant discourses about the power of the atom. In films such as Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) and The Wasp Woman (1959), female anatomy is altered by external contagions or pathogens…

January 7, 2019 in History & Politics.
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