Joan Crawford's Padded Shoulders: Female Masculinity in Mildred Pierce

Abstract

Robert J. Corber is a professor and the director of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program at Trinity College in Connecticut. He is the author of In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America and Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity. He is also the editor, with Stephen Valocchi, of Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader. He is currently writing a book about gender and sexual mobility in Cold War Hollywood cinema.