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Sources:

Film Production Background:

Adam Vary, "The Crazy Story of How 'Clue' Went From Forgotten Flop to Cult Film Triumph," Buzzfeed, Available at https://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/something-terrible-has-happened-here-the-crazy-story-of-how

imdb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088930/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 \

Ironing Board Cupboards:

https://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/stowed-away-a-peek-into-closets-of-the-past_o

Best Ironing Board Today https://www.bestironingboardtoday.com

Slapping Hysterical Women:

Patent history: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8671598B2/en

Sheila Peace, Martin Maguire, Colette Nicolle, Russ Marshall, John Percival, Rachel Scicluna, Ruth Sims, Leonie Kellaher and Clare Lawton, "Transitions in kitchen living: past experiences and present use," The New Dynamics of Aging, Vol. 1 ed. Alan Walker (Bristol University Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt21216v3.18

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/slap-history-hysteria-treatment-films-ahed-tamim-israel-soldiers-women-groundhog-day-a8189896.html%3famp

Cecilia Tasca, Mariangela Tapetti, Mauro Giovanni Carta, and Bianca Fadda, " Women and Hysteria in the History of Mental Health," Clinical Practice & Epidemiology in Mental Health 8 (2012): 110-119. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.2174%2F1745017901208010110

TV Tropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GetAHoldOfYourselfMan

Sobering slap: Mythbusters https://youtu.be/9mmJMIwsaDQ

"The History of Hysteria" https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-quackery/history-hysteria

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/06/hysteria-sex-toy-history-timeline/

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/11/mel-gibson-slapped-his-girlfriend-to-bring-her-back-to-reality-is-that-a-good-idea.html

Wiretapping:

Athan G. Theoharis, "A History of FBI Wiretapping Authority," Abuse of Power: How Cold War Surveillance and Secrecy Policy Shaped the Response to 9/11 (Temple University Press: 2011). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt14bt7ht.6

David Cunningham, "Counterintelligence Activities and the FBI," There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence (University of California Press, 2004). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp0dx.6

William R. Casto, "Wiretapping," Advising the President: Attorney General Robert H. Jackson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (University of Kansas Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv80cd5b.6

Neal Katyal and Richard Caplan, "The Surprisingly Stronger Case for the Legality of the NSA Surveillance Program: The FDR Precedent," Stanford Law Review 60:4 (February 2008): 1023-1077. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40040407

Colin Agur, "Negotiated Order: The Fourth Amendment, Telephone Surveillance, and Social Interactions, 1878-1968," Information & Culture 48:4 (2013): 419-447. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43737371

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, "anachronism as myth and reality: 1945-1972" The FBI: A History (Yale University Press, 2007). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vm6tv.12

Lavender Scare:

Excerpt from the Congressional Record 96, 4 (1950). Available at https://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/gays-in-govt.html

David K Johnson, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in Government. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Judith Adkins, "'These People Are Frightened to Death': Congressional Investigations and the Lavender Scare." Prologue Magazine 48, 2 (2016). Available at https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2016/summer/lavender.html

Charles M. Douglas, Hoover's War on Gays: Exposing the FBI's 'Sex Deviates' Program. University Press of Kansas, 2015.

French Maids:

Lynn Hunt, ed. The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800. Zone Books, 1996

Emily Apter, Feminizing the Fetish: Master Narratives/Servant Texts: Representing the Maid from Flaubert to Freud. Cornell University Press.

Leonore Davidoff, "Class and Gender in Victorian England: The Diaries of Arthur J. Munby and Hannah Cullwick," Feminist Studies 5, 1 (1979).