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An edition of Where the girls are (1994)

Where the girls are

growing up female with the mass media

  • 105 Want to read
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Where the Girls Are is a romp through the confusing and contradictory images of women in American pop culture, as media critic Susan J. Douglas looks back at the television programs, popular music, advertising, and nightly news reports of the past four decades to reveal the decidedly mixed messages conveyed to girls and women coming of age in America.

In a humorous and provocative analysis of our postwar cultural heritage (never losing sight of the essential ludicrousness of flying nuns or identical cousins), Douglas deconstructs these ambiguous messages and fathoms their influence on her own life and the lives of her contemporaries.

Douglas tells the story of young women growing up on a steady diet of images that implicitly acknowledged their concerns without directly saying so. It is no accident, she argues, that "girl groups" like the Shirelles emerged in the early 1960s, singing sexually charged songs like "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?"; or that cultural anxiety over female assertiveness showed up in sitcoms like Bewitched whose heroines had magical powers; or that the news coverage of the Equal Rights Amendment degenerated into a spat among women, absolving men of any responsibility - a pattern mirrored in shows like Dallas and Dynasty, where male amorality was overshadowed by the cat-fights between Joan Collins and Linda Evans.

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English
Pages
348

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Where the girls are: growing up female with the mass media
1995, Times Books, Three Rivers Press
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Where the girls are: growing up female with the mass media
1995, Penguin, Penguin Books Ltd
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Where the girls are: growing up female with the mass media
1994, Times Books
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Table of Contents

Fractured fairy tales
Mama said
Sex and the single teenager
Why the Shirelles mattered
She's got the devil in her heart
Genies and witches
Throwing out our bras
I am woman, hear me roar
The rise of the bionic bimbo
The ERA as catfight
Narcissism as liberation
I'm not a feminist, but

Edition Notes

Originally published in a slightly different form: New York : Times Books, c1994.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-333) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
P94.5.W65

The Physical Object

Pagination
348 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
348

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18200356M
ISBN 10
0812925300
LCCN
94000490
OCLC/WorldCat
995527352
Library Thing
322
Goodreads
79287

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