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Inarticulate Longings: The Ladies' Home Journal, Gender and the Promise of Consumer Culture
Contributor(s): Scanlon, Jennifer (Author)
ISBN: 0415911575     ISBN-13: 9780415911573
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $42.70  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 1995
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Annotation: A cultural history based on "The Ladies' Home Journal," "Inarticulate Longings" offers a new and provocative perspective on the magazine, the advertising industry, and women's lives during the early twentieth century.
The volume explores the contradictions of a social agenda for women that promoted both traditional roles and the promises of a growing consumer culture.
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Advertising & Promotion
- Social Science | Gender Studies
- History
Dewey: 659.132
LCCN: 95000699
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.34" W x 8.86" (0.85 lbs) 290 pages
 
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Inarticulate Longings explores the contradictions of a social agenda for women that promoted both traditional roles and the promises of a growing consumer culture by examining the advertising industry in the early 20th century.