Business girls and two-job wives
Subtitle: emerging media stereotypes of employed women
By: Jane Marcellus
Series: The Hampton Press communication series. Women, culture and mass communication; Hampton Press communication series
Publisher: Hampton Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cresskill, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781572739888; 9781572739895
Subjects: Women employees; Women in mass media; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The forgotten workforce : women, work, and magazines : from colonial times to the Great Depression; title: "Doctor? lawyer? merchant? chief?" : opportunities, contradictions, controversies; title: Office machine, office wife : the "business girl" in magazines; title: The expert and the exception : teachers, nurses, corsetières, and "others"; title: Women's bodies, women's jobs : looks and health in the workplace; title: The "two-job wife" : married women and careers; title: Opportunity and the crisis : visibility for African American women workers; title: "Take a letter, Mr. Jones" : the employed woman defines herself; title: Does your "do reveal what you do?" : the symbolic echo of media stereotypes; title: Afterword : why media representations of employed women matters.