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Table of Contents
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List of Plates |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction: Sex and the Goddess |
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Chapter One: Sex as Cinematic Capital: Jean Harlow and the Economy of the Gold Digger |
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Chapter Two: Sex as Cinematic “Queening”: Mae West Decamps |
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Chapter Three: Sex as Cinematic Code: Lana Turner and the Duplicity of the Femme Fatale |
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Chapter Four: Sex as Cinematic Eroticism: Jayne Mansfield's Breasts |
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Conclusion: The American Sex Goddess is Legally Blonde |
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Notes |
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Biographies and Filmographies |
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Select Bibliography |