Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female With the Mass Media
- ISBN-10
- 0812925300
- ISBN-13
- 9780812925302
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 348
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Three Rivers Press
- Author
- Susan J. Douglas
Description
A scholar and media critic takes a provocative look at the portrayal of women in American popular culture from the 1950s to the present day and assesses the impact of such images on women's real lives
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