Publications ( << previous page )

"An Awful Struggle Between Love and Ambition: Serial Heroines, Early Celebrity and Modern Femininity." In The Silent Cinema Reader Ed. Lee Grieveson and Peter Kramer.  New York:  Routledge, 2003, 210-25.  Excerpted from Movie-Struck Girls.

"Taking Precautions, or Contraceptive Technology and Cinema's Regulatory Apparatus."  In A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema.  Ed. Jennifer Bean and Diane Negra.  Raleigh, NC: Duke University Press, 2002, 270-97.

"Moral Coercion, or the Board of Censorship Ponders the Vice Question."  In Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era.  Ed. Matthew Bernstein.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999, 41-58.

"'Oil Upon the Flames of Vice': The Battle Over White Slave Films in New York City."  Film History 9, no. 4 (1997): 351-64.

"Is Any Girl Safe? Female Spectators at the White Slave Films."  Screen 37, no. 1 (1996): 1-15.
[Winner of the Screen Award for Excellence and Honorary Mention in the Katherine Singer Kovacs Essay Awards]

"Toronto's 'Girl Workers,' The Female Body, and Industrial Efficiency in Her Own Fault." Cinémas 6, no. 1 (1995): 81-99.

"Eighty Million Women Want-----?: Women's Suffrage, Female Viewers and the Body Politic."   
Quarterly Review of Film and Video 16, no. 1 (1995): 1-22.

"Wages and Sin: Traffic in Souls and the White Slavery Scare."  Persistence of Vision 9 (1991): 90-102.

“Carrie's Monstrous Puberty.” Journal of Film and Video 43, no. 4 (1991):  33-44. Reprinted in The Dread of Difference: Gender in the Horror Film. Ed. Barry Keith Grant. Austin:  University of Texas Press, 1996, 279-95.