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Mary Elizabeth Wilson'
The Art of Infectious Disease
Mary Elizabeth Wilson
Category:
Mass Media
Published:
January 2010
It is revealing that the posters about venereal disease from the 1940s depict the woman as the villain--the source of infection for the 'clean' man. The message portrayed was that wily females were suspect, deceptive, and dangerous. . . .