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    Where the Girls Are

    Growing Up Female with the Mass Media

    Author Susan J. Douglas
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    Crown
    On sale Mar 28, 1995 | 384 Pages | 9780812925302
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    Where the Girls Are is a tour through the confusing and contradictory images of women in American pop culture. 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 the United States. In a provocative analysis of our postwar cultural heritage, Douglas deconstructs these ambiguous messages and fathoms their influence on her own life and the lives of her contemporaries.

    "A first-rate analysis of the music, movies and TV imagery that helped shape female psyches."
    --Newsweek

    "A lively, clever, and illuminating book. Susan Douglas performs the culture critic's formidable task with savvy, raucous wit, and exactly the right kind of ambivalence."
    --Mark Crispin Miller
    Susan J. Douglas, Ph.D., is a professor of communication studies at the University in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is a prize-winning author, columnist, and lecturer known well for her book Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media. She lives with her husband and daughter in Ann Arbor. View titles by Susan J. Douglas

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    Where the Girls Are is a tour through the confusing and contradictory images of women in American pop culture. 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 the United States. In a provocative analysis of our postwar cultural heritage, Douglas deconstructs these ambiguous messages and fathoms their influence on her own life and the lives of her contemporaries.

    "A first-rate analysis of the music, movies and TV imagery that helped shape female psyches."
    --Newsweek

    "A lively, clever, and illuminating book. Susan Douglas performs the culture critic's formidable task with savvy, raucous wit, and exactly the right kind of ambivalence."
    --Mark Crispin Miller

    Author

    Susan J. Douglas, Ph.D., is a professor of communication studies at the University in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is a prize-winning author, columnist, and lecturer known well for her book Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media. She lives with her husband and daughter in Ann Arbor. View titles by Susan J. Douglas

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