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    Where the girls are : growing up female with the mass media (1994)
    New York : Times Books
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    ISBN: 0812922069
    Language: English
    Pages: 340 S. , Ill.
    Edition: 1. ed.
    DDC: 302.3/082
    RVK:
    AP 19830
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    MS 7960
    RVK:
    EC 1874
    Keywords: Culture populaire - États-Unis ; Médias et femmes - États-Unis ; Mass media and women ; Popular culture ; Mädchen ; Massenmedien ; Frau ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Massenmedien ; Mädchen ; USA ; Massenmedien ; Frau
    Abstract: 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
    Abstract: 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. And yet for all the images that reinforced a traditional view of servile and dependent women, Douglas powerfully reveals how American mass culture also undermined these images by offering countless examples of girls and women who were actors in the wider world and who controlled their own destinies
    Abstract: In fact, it was the kitsch images of the 1950s and '60s that paradoxically helped to create a genuine feminist consciousness in the 1970s and '80s. The Ronettes, Gidget, and Charlie's Angels may seem unlikely feminist heroines, but Douglas reclaims them as cultural touchstones for contemporary women trying to make sense of their own lives. Her lively narrative is sure to provoke laughter and wonderment over why no one else had ever noticed these things about America's popular culture. "We must rewatch and relisten," writes Douglas, "but with a new mission: to go where the girls are. It's time to reclaim a past too frequently ignored, hooted at, and dismissed, because it is in these images of women that we find the roots of who we are now." With warmth, wit, and a keen eye for the absurd, Where the Girls Are supplies a crucial missing chapter in the cultural history of our time
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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    In our prime : how older women are reinventing the road ahead (2020)
    New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company
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    ISBN: 9780393652550
    Language: English
    Pages: 268 Seiten
    Edition: First edition
    DDC: 305.26/20973
    Keywords: Older women History ; Ageism History ; Age discrimination History ; Baby boom generation History ; USA ; Geburtenstarker Jahrgang ; Ältere Frau
    Abstract: "With a sharp sense of justice and humor, Susan J. Douglas confronts ageism against women in media, work, and politics. In the 1970s, baby boom women began to redefine women's lives and opportunities. Now, that they are the largest American female generation over fifty, Susan J. Douglas argues that these feminist boomers are again challenging outdated stereotypes, and reinventing what it means to be older and female. This is a demographic revolution, and Douglas proposes that it's time for a new wave of activism to address ageism against women in all its manifestations. In Our Prime takes on the cosmetics industry for its expensive products and anti-aging messages; big pharma for its images of docile grannies and puttering gardeners; and Hollywood and TV for seeing females over fifty as has-beens. She exposes the financial insecurity many face even as conservatives continue their attack on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid-and calls on women of every age to unite to combat gendered ageism and to secure our country's financial safety net"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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    The mommy myth : the idealization of motherhood and how it has undermined all women (2005)
    New York, NY : Free Press
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    ISBN: 0743260465 , 0743259998 , 9780743260466
    Language: English
    Pages: 383 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Edition: First Free Press trade paperback edition
    DDC: 306.874/3/0973
    RVK:
    AP 19830
    RVK:
    MS 1990
    Keywords: Motherhood ; Mothers ; Women in mass media ; USA ; Mutterschaft ; Mythos ; USA ; Frau ; Massenmedien
    Description / Table of Contents: The new momism -- Revolt against the MRS -- Mouthing off to Dr. Spock -- Threats from without: satanism, abduction, and other media panics -- Attack of the celebrity moms -- Threats from within: maternal delinquents -- The war against welfare mothers -- The "mommy wars" -- Dumb men, stupid choices, or why we have no childcare -- Moms "R" us -- Dr. Laura's neighborhood: baby wearing, nanny cams, and the triumph of the new momism -- Exorcising the new momism.
    Description / Table of Contents: The new momism -- Revolt against the MRS -- Mouthing off to Dr. Spock -- Threats from without: satanism, abduction, and other media panics -- Attack of the celebrity moms -- Threats from within: maternal delinquents -- The war against welfare mothers -- The "mommy wars" -- Dumb men, stupid choices, or why we have no childcare -- Moms "R" us -- Dr. Laura's neighborhood: baby wearing, nanny cams, and the triumph of the new momism -- Exorcising the new momism
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-361) and index
    URL: Autorenbiografie
    URL: Verlagsangaben
    URL: Auszug
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/simon053/2004299458.html
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    URL: Autorenbiografie
    URL: Verlagsangaben
    URL: Auszug
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/simon053/2004299458.html
    URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon052/2004299458.html
    URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy045/2004299458.html
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    URL: Autorenbiografie
    URL: Verlagsangaben
    URL: Auszug
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/simon053/2004299458.html
    URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon052/2004299458.html
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    Celebrity : a history of fame (2019)
    New York : New York University Press
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    ISBN: 9781479862030 , 9781479852437
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 315 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Critical cultural communication
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Douglas, Susan J., 1950 - Celebrity
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Douglas, Susan J., 1950 - Celebrity
    DDC: 302/.13
    Keywords: Celebrities ; Fame ; Social influence ; Social status ; Mass media Social aspects ; Popular culture ; Berühmte Persönlichkeit ; Ruhm ; Volkskultur ; Sozialstatus ; Einfluss ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Today, celebrity culture is an inescapable part of our media landscape and our everyday lives. This was not always the case. Over the past century, media technologies have increasingly expanded the production and proliferation of fame. Celebrity explores this revolution and its often under-estimated impact on American culture. Using numerous precedent-setting examples spanning more than one hundred years of media history, Douglas and McDonnell trace the dynamic relationship between celebrity and the technologies of mass communication that have shaped the nature of fame in the United States.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Theories of celebrity -- The rise of mass culture and the production of celebrities -- Silver screens and their stars -- Radio: the stars in our homes -- TV and the need for familiarity -- Musical celebrity -- Everyone's a star -- Conclusion
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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