Girl on the Magazine Cover The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media

Name: Girl on the Magazine Cover The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media
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ISBN: 9780807849781

ISBN-10: 0807849782

ISBN-13: 9780807849781

Edition: 2001

Authors: Carolyn Kitch

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From the Gibson Girl to the flapper, from the vamp to the New Woman, Carolyn Kitch traces mass media images of women to their historical roots on magazine covers, unveiling the origins of gender stereotypes in early-twentieth-century American culture. Kitch examines the years from 1895 to 1930 as a time when the first wave of feminism intersected with the rise of new technologies and media for the reproduction and dissemination of visual images. Access to suffrage, higher education, the professions, and contraception broadened women's opportunities, but the images found on magazine covers emphasized the role of women as consumers: suffrage was reduced to spending, sexuality to sexiness, and…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 10/29/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Philip J. Currie is Curator of Dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology. He is co-editor (with Eva B. Koppelhus) of Feathered Dragons: Studies on the Transition from Dinosaurs to Birds (IUP, 2004). He lives in Drumheller, Alberta.Eva B. Koppelhus is an adjunct research scientist at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology. She lives in Drumheller, Alberta.

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
From True Woman to New Woman	p. 17
The American Girl	p. 37
Dangerous Women and the Crisis of Masculinity	p. 56
Alternative Visions	p. 75
Patriotic Images	p. 101
The Flapper	p. 121
The Modern American Family	p. 136
The Advertising Connection	p. 160
Epilogue and Discussion	p. 182
Notes	p. 193
Bibliography	p. 221
Index	p. 239
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