Working Women The New Pin Up

This collectible portfolio of temporary tattoos includes six coordinating sheets of Bill Presing's playful animation-inspired designs. Presing's modern take on the classic pin-up style features strong women in varying professions, from fighter pilots to boxers to astronauts, adding a feminist twist to this classic tattoo genre.

DIVA visual history about how feminist artists have appropriated and incorporated the signification of the pin-up genre within their own work./div

A beautifully illustrated book celebrating forty of the world's sexiest brains--people who have changed the world in big and small ways. This beautifully illustrated book celebrates fifty of the world's sexiest brains--people who have changed the world in big and small ways. What have the world's sexiest people ever really done for us? We should be crushing big-time on the beautiful brains of the people who actually make a difference. Elon Musk, swoon-worthy inventor who spends his billions developing sustainable energy sources and space exploration. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, (gavel-)bangin' babe of the US Supreme Court who has spent her life fighting for women's rights. There's the other Tyra, Rupaul: our heroic hunti, and the ultimate champion of drag culture. We have yet to even mention our almightiest Queen, the modest mogal who came from nothing, the incomparable Oprah Winfrey. These dreamboats are the real pin-ups, the poster people for brilliance, bravery, and giving a damn.

From the girl next door to sexy switch-blade sisters, the pin-up girls depicted in this collection of works by 15 of today's best artists boldly display the full spectrum of the genre. Through masterful use of color and media, both traditional and digital, these artists from around the world capture the female form in ways that remain true to their forefathers (Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, etc.) but also to their own contemporary styles. To dig deeper into the process, each artist's section includes a statement that unveils his or her inspiration and techniques. Themes in the 280+ works included here are vast and cover everything from action, horror, and 70s cinema to mythology, comic books, science fiction, and fantasy. So, whether you're into zombies, angels, latex, burlesque, or pop-culture, there is fresh, modern pin-up art for everyone.

"Pin-up Poster Book: The Elvgren Collection" is the book that has taken the country by storm. Gil Elvgren's pin-ups boosted the morale of our WWII fighting men the world over. Phillips includes a humorous introduction, photographs of models posing, and reproductions (suitable for framing) of the original paintings.

Dangerous. Sexy. All-American--or rather All-World--Girl. Pin Up! The Subculture is the first book to explore the contemporary international subculture of pin up, women (and men) who embrace vintage style, but not vintage values. Award-winning filmmaker and author Kathleen M. Ryan spent more than five years in the subculture. It's a world of cat eye makeup, carefully constructed hairstyles, and retro-inspired fashions. But it's also a world that embraces the ideals of feminism. Beauty, according to the pin up, is found not in body type or skin color, but in the confidence and sexual agency of the individual. Pin ups see their subculture as a way to exert empowerment and control of their own sexual and social identities--something that is part of the pin up's historical legacy. This lavishly illustrated book includes interviews with more than fifty international pin ups and helps readers to understand how they use social media and personal interactions to navigate thorny issues such as racism, sexism, homophobia, sizeism, and other difficult topics. Ryan demonstrates how even within subcultures, identity is far from homogeneous. Pin ups use the safety of their shared subcultural values to advocate for social and political change. A fascinating combination of cultural history, media studies, and oral history, Pin Up! The Subculture is the story about how a subculture is subverting and reviving an historic aesthetic for the twenty-first century.

This is a new release of the original 1941 edition.

Describes the origins and the development in detail and showcasing the most important artists. More than 900 colour illustrations.

This book covers the phenomenon of stalking in its two major variations, sexual and surveillance, by emphasizing its central relevance to today's social, cultural, and political dilemmas with particular reference to stalking in cyberspace and its inevitable invasions of privacy.

Leading historians explore how our ideas of what is attractive are influenced by a broad range of social and economic factors. They force us to reckon with the ways that beauty has been made, bought and sold in modern America.