Wolf-Women and phantom ladies : female desire in 1940s US culture / Steven Dillon.

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]

ix, 321 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Sexual visibility, or, The duel in the sun -- Diana Trilling, female desire, and the study of popular culture -- The waiting room: female desire in women's wartime fiction -- He-wolves and she-wolves: from Tex Avery to Jackson Pollock -- Phantom ladies: on the radio and out of the closet -- White female desire wearing the masks of color -- What young women want: from high school to college -- The power and the horror: male and female cultural spaces -- Conclusion. Two phantom women: Ruth Herschberger and Elizabeth Hawes.