The forgotten workforce : women, work, and magazines : from colonial times to the Great Depression -- "Doctor? lawyer? merchant? chief?" : opportunities, contradictions, controversies -- Office machine, office wife : the "business girl" in magazines -- The expert and the exception : teachers, nurses, corsetiè€res, and "others" -- Women's bodies, women's jobs : looks and health in the workplace -- The "two-job wife" : married women and careers -- Opportunity and the crisis : visibility for African American women workers -- "Take a letter, Mr. Jones" : the employed woman defines herself -- Does your "do reveal what you do?" : the symbolic echo of media stereotypes -- Afterword : why media representations of employed women matters.
Series:
The Hampton Press communication series. Women, culture and mass communication.
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