Mad Men picspam, pt. I: Joan Holloway

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Mad Men is a show about a particularly noxiously sexist period in American history--the late 1950s and early 1960s--that features some of the best women characters on TV. This picspam is devoted to Joan Holloway, office manager and undisputed queen bee at the advertising agency Sterling Cooper. Conventional to a fault, her mixture of steely-eyed competence and va-va-voom is nonetheless remarkable. Cross Joan at your peril; as far as I can tell, the only way to get out of that predicament is an unwise marriage to a partner.