University of Windsor Scholarship at UWindsor Major Papers Theses, Dissertations, and Major Papers August 2021 “What Sort of Man Reads Playboy?”: Gender, Heterosexuality, and Reader Letters in Playboy Magazine, 1953-1963 Kess Carpenter University of Windsor,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/major-papers Part of the Cultural History Commons, History of Gender Commons, Social History Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Carpenter, Kess, "“What Sort of Man Reads Playboy?”: Gender, Heterosexuality, and Reader Letters in Playboy Magazine, 1953-1963" (2021). Major Papers. 184. https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/major-papers/184 This Major Research Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Dissertations, and Major Papers at Scholarship at UWindsor. It has been accepted for inclusion in Major Papers by an authorized administrator of Scholarship at UWindsor. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. “What Sort of Man Reads Playboy?”: Gender, Heterosexuality, and Reader Letters in Playboy Magazine, 1953-1963 By Kessia Carpenter A Major Research Paper Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies through the Department of History in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts at the University of Windsor Windsor, Ontario, Canada 2021 © 2021 Kessia Carpenter “What Sort of Man Reads Playboy?”: An Analysis of Reader Letters in Playboy Magazine, 1953-1963 by Kessia Carpenter APPROVED BY: ______________________________________________ C. Burr Department of History ______________________________________________ P. Way, Advisor Department of History August 5, 2021. DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY I hereby certify that I am the sole author of this thesis and that no part of this thesis has been published or submitted for publication.