Corrie's review
Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
by Susan J. Douglas
Corrie's review
Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media by Susan J. Douglas
Corrie's review
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gender-studies
This is a fascinating look at mass media from the 1960's-1990's, and the way it simultaneously portrayed, influeced, and responded to women throughout the women's movement. I think it's a valuable read, although I only gave it three stars, because it lacks the comprehensiveness that I expected from such a book. Many promising theories presented by the author need to be explained with more convincing data or more persuasive arguments, if the reader is to fully accept the conclusions she draws.
In fact, while reading this book, I found myself asking my parents all kinds of questions about what it was like to live through the feminist movement. (The book often assumes that you were there.)
The story about the first feminist protest at a 1968(?) Miss America pageant was my favorite part of this book. I highly admire this author's consistency, with regard to respecting women as human beings with souls--not bodies to be paraded. In our current era where we are told (in music, movies,...more
In fact, while reading this book, I found myself asking my parents all kinds of questions about what it was like to live through the feminist movement. (The book often assumes that you were there.)
The story about the first feminist protest at a 1968(?) Miss America pageant was my favorite part of this book. I highly admire this author's consistency, with regard to respecting women as human beings with souls--not bodies to be paraded. In our current era where we are told (in music, movies,...more
