Full name: Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media

Author: Susan J. Douglas Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Feminism, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780812925302 0812925300

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. Similar books: Pink Think by Lynn Peril The Mismeasure of Woman by Carol Tavris The End of Men by Hanna Rosin Enlightened Sexism by Susan J. Douglas For Her Own Good by Barbara Ehrenreich The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler America's Women by Gail Collins Marriage, a History by Stephanie Coontz A Woman's View by Jeanine Basinger The Spinster and Her Enemies by Sheila Jeffreys The Sacred Hoop by Paula Gunn Allen The Male Body by Susan Bordo Remaking Women by Lila Abu-Lughod Feminism and Pop Culture by Andi Zeisler Black macho and the myth of the superwoman by Michele Wallace Seductress by Elizabeth Prioleau Scheherazade Goes West by Fatema Mernissi Sisterhood, Interrupted by Deborah Siegel A History of Marriage by Elizabeth Abbott The Body Project by Joan Jacobs Brumberg