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"I Read it for the Articles": Playboy, Inc. and the Production of the New Progressive
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Thu, Nov 2, 2023
5:15 PM – 7 PM CDT (GMT-5)
GEAR 026
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Speaker: Lisa Corrigan, professor of communication and director of the gender studies program
Bio:
Dr. Lisa Corrigan is a professor of communication and director of the gender studies program at the University of Arkansas. She's the award-winning author of Prison Power: How Prison Politics Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation (University Press of Mississippi, 2016) and Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties (University Press of Mississippi, 2020). She's the editor of #MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist (Routledge, 2022) and is a current contributor to The Nation magazine. She also co-hosts the popular podcast, Lean Back: Critical Feminist Conversations with Laura Weiderhaft.
Abstract:
This talk will focus on the co-evolution of Playboy magazine and the larger corporate culture in Playboy, Inc. to understand how founder Hugh Hefner used the magazine and the Playboy Foundation to create new progressive subjectivities in the postwar period. Using extensive archival research, the talk charts Playboy's deep investment in gay liberation, civil rights/Black Power activism, and feminism to understand how the organization both argued for and financed a bold new vision of American citizenship.