Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television

by Elana Levine

Book Overview

Passengers disco dancing in The Love Boat's Acapulco Lounge. A young girl walking by a marquee advertising Deep Throat in the made-for-TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. A frustrated housewife borrowing Orgasm and You from her local library in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Commercial television of the 1970s was awash with references to sex. In the wake of the sexual revolution and the women's liberation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822339196
• ISBN13: 9780822339199
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"