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Michael Kammen on the sexist controversy of political cartoons in The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and their Enduring Power by Victor Navasky:

Best of all, perhaps, this svelte book (brevity being the soul of wit) begins and ends with an inquiry / explanation of Navasky’s editorial decision to publish an extraordinary cartoon by the late David Levine titled “Screwing the World” (1984), despite protests from an overwhelming majority of his staff at The Nation, mainly women, who regarded the work as sexist. 

Read the whole review here.

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