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Author Kitch, Carolyn L.

Title The girl on the magazine cover : the origins of visual stereotypes in American mass media / Carolyn Kitch.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2001.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  302.2308209 K646g    ---  Available
Description xii, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-238) and index.
Contents From the true woman to new woman -- The American girl -- Dangerous women and the crisis of masculinity -- Alternative visions -- Patriotic images -- The flapper -- The modern American family -- The advertising connection.
Subject Women in mass media -- History.
Mass media -- United States -- History.
Visual communication -- United States -- History.
Advertising -- United States -- History.
Mass media and culture -- United States -- History.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- United States -- History.
ISBN 0807826537 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807849782 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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