Blame it on Romance: What Frightened Senator Joe McCarthy

• What:
  Free talks & tours
• When:
  Wed 30 November 2011 13:00
• Where:
  Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre

LUNCHTIME LECTURE: Join Ian Rakoff, screenwriter, editor and author, to look at the significance of politics and gender in relation to popular romance comic books.

Romance comic books selling over 30 million monthly issues and featuring influential heroines dominated the market from 1949 to 1954. At the same time, real women continued to experience gender discrimination and disempowerment. Ian Rakoff draws new connections between the content of romance comic books and 1950s anti-communist McCarthy witch-hunts.