Title: Smoke signals : women, smoking and visual culture in Britain /
Authors: Tinkler, Penny.
Publisher: Berg,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Women Tobacco use Great Britain History.; Women Great Britain Social conditions; Women Great Britain Social conditions; Mass media and culture Great Britain History.; Smoking history
Abstract: Penny Tinkler charts women's changing relationship to tobacco from the 1880s to the 1980s during which smoking transformed from a male practice to one enjoyed by both sexes. Focusing on the feminisation of cigarette smoking, the author unravels the role of visual culture and the impact of social, economic and medical changes.
Contents: Women, smoking and visual culture, 1880-1980 : an introduction -- Invisible women smokers, 1880-1919 -- The feminization of smoking, 1920-1950 -- Modern and emancipated women -- The sexual promise -- Respectable smoking : a class act -- Look at me smoking : revealing portraits? -- Mixed messages, 1950s-1980.