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Author Shields, Vickie Rutledge.

Title Measuring up : how advertising affects self-image / Vickie Rutledge Shields with Dawn Heinecken.

Imprint Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.3 Sh61m    ---  Available
Description xvi, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-195) and index.
Contents Theory and method -- Stereotypes and body parts : advertising content -- What do ads teach us about gender -- Signs of the times : a semiotics of gender ads -- Weighing in and measuring up -- Elizabeth's story -- Differences within gender : manufacturing distance -- Interventions and changes -- Final thoughts.
Subject Gender identity in mass media.
Advertising.
Semiotics.
Added Author Heinecken, Dawn.
ISBN 0812236319 (cloth : alk. paper)
0812217918 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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