The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media (repost)
The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media By Carolyn L. Kitch
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press 2000 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0807826537 | PDF | 10 MB
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press 2000 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0807826537 | PDF | 10 MB
It seems that each time the American woman begins to veer toward feminism, mainstream magazines put her back in her "proper" place, portraying her as wife, mother, and consumer. Kitch (journalism, Temple Univ.) traces the early development of this trend, beginning in the 1890s with Alice Barber Stephens's "American Woman" series and ending 30 years later with the ideal families depicted by Norman Rockwell and Jessie Willcox Smith. In between, she considers such influential icons as the flapper, the vamp, the nurse, the "girl graduate," and Charles Dana Gibson's eponymous representation of womanhood, who is tellingly called a girl, not a woman.