"Dillon provides a fascinating analysis of female sexuality in the 1940s as depicted in a truly diverse array of mostly popular culture productions, including popular novels, radio serials, commercial and educational films, and comics … Highly recommended." — CHOICE"This exciting book presents a truly capacious understanding of US culture and offers a spectacular array of analyses of how the decade's cultural discourse struggled to define female desire and how so much male literature and filmmaking sought to constrain it. Dillon's study will teach scholars of modern American literature and culture a great deal more about the 1940s than they already know or think they know. It is a brilliant addition to the field." — Gordon Hutner, author of What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920–1960
