| Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media Contributor(s): Douglas, Susan J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812925300 ISBN-13: 9780812925302 Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY) OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1995 Annotation: Media critic Douglas deconstructs the ambiguous messages sent to American women via TV programs, popular music, advertising, and nightly news reporting over the last 40 years, and fathoms their influence on her own life and the lives of her contemporaries. Photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Social Science | Popular Culture - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 302.308 |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 5.57" W x 8.3" (0.76 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With more than 60,000 copies sold since its 1995 publication, Susan Douglas's Where the Girls Are provides an insightful and often funny analysis of TV, magazines, commercials, and news in the 60s and 70s, as well as the pop culture images of women pumped into the mass consciousness by the media. From genies to witches, Jackie O to Betty Friedan, the Flying Nun to MTV, Douglas writes of the impact the mass media had on her personal life as well as on the development of the feminist movement. |