Ellen Rapoport’s Minx is set in Los Angeles in 1970 and pits earnest feminist Joyce, against Jake Johnson, a publisher of adult magazines. She’s thoughtful and wants to improve things for other people, but again, she can often get tunnel vision.” In season two, Ophelia says, Joyce becomes quite selfish. “She is just so seduced by the attention, money, and …
The second wave feminist movement is inching towards its crescendo, reproductive rights are the talk of the town, and liberation is in the air. Joyce Prigger, a Gloria Steinem fangirl and Vassar graduate, armed with feminist theory, is on the prowl for publishers for her magazine — ‘The Matriarchy Awakens’. Fashioned after the 70s magazines featuring nude men like Playgirl …
Left: Mia Goth stars in "X"; right: Ophelia Lovibond stars in "Minx." Photo Credit: Christopher Moss Porn’s success throughout the ’70s was considered an ominous foil to normative domesticity, said Whitney Strub, associate professor of history at Rutgers University, Newark, and author of “Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right.” He told HuffPost …
