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Books by Jane Marcellus
In chapters aimed at helping readers understand women’s lives in the 1960s, Mad Men is used as a springboard to explore and discover alternative ways of seeing women. Offering more than a discussion of the show itself, the book offers historical insight for thinking about serious issues that “modern” working women continue to face today: balancing their work and personal lives, competing with other women, and controlling their own bodies and reproductive choices.
Rather than critiquing the show for portraying women as victims, the book shows subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) ways that feminism functioned in an era when women were supposedly caught between the “waves” of the women’s movement but when, the authors argue, they functioned nonetheless as empowered individuals.
By doing so, it provides historical context and analysis that complicates traditional interpretations by (1) exploring historical constructions of women’s work; (2) unpacking feminist and non-feminist discourses surrounding that work; (3) identifying modes of re¬sistance; and (4) revisiting forgotten work coded as feminine.
ISBN 978-1-4331-2419-8 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4539-1254-6 (e-book)
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Abridged Contents: Introduction: Runner-Up For Man Of The Year. Women, Work, and Femininity. The Interwar Years: Shifting Roles and Discontent. Growing Media Influence. Material Forces, Media Rituals. Femininity—Imposed Limitations. Examining Interwar Magazines. Reinforcing Domestic Discourses, Chapters. The Forgotten Workforce: Women, Work, and Magazines From Colonial Times To The Great Depression. “Noe Idle Drones”—Women and Work in Colonial America. Women, Ladies, Labor, and the Industrial Revolution. After the Civil War—Expanding Options, Emerging Controversies. “All Right, We Are Two Nations”—The Interwar Years. Work and Sex—the Modern Woman. “Doctor? Lawyer? Merchant? Chief?”: Opportunities, Contradictions, Controversies. Recruiting Women in Wartime . From Duty to Opportunity—the Postwar World. Protective Legislation—Help or Hindrance? The Girl Invaders. Essentializing Employed Women. Harm to Men, Children, Other Women. Office Machine, Office Wife: The “Business Girl” in Magazines. The “Typewriter” Emerges. The Business Girl—Efficient, Faceless, Marriageable. Sexualized Machines. Windows and Worship. Office Debutantes, Office Wives. The Telephone Operator—Nobody’s Office Wife. The Expert and the Exception: Teachers, Nurses, Corsetières, and “Others”. Woman as Expert Woman. Woman as Exception. Women’s Bodies, Women’s Jobs: Looks and Health in the Workplace. Body Types and the Employed Woman. Women’s Bodies on the Job . Health and the Employed Woman. The “Two-Job Wife”: Married Women and Careers. Married Women in the Workplace. The Two-Job Wife in Magazines. Professional Couples, Personal Stories. The Two-Job Wife Faces the Depression. Promoting the Two-Job Lifestyle. Opportunity And The Crisis: Visibility For African American Women Workers. Magazines and the Black Press. Postwar Optimism. Combatting Sexism Alongside Racism. Profiling Successful Women. Paid Work and Motherhood. The Depression. Employed Women in Stories and Poems. “Take A Letter, Mr. Jones”: The Employed Woman Defines Herself. Anonymous Voices. “Take a Letter, Mr. Jones”. A New Social Order— Independent Woman. “Does Your ’Do Reveal What You Do?”: The Symbolic Echo of Media Stereotypes. The Inheritance of Stereotypes. Return of the Office Wife. Two-Job Wives and Superwomen. Advice for Young Women. Global Images. Afterword: Why Media Representations of Employed Women Matter. Bibliography. Author Index. Subject Index.
Papers by Jane Marcellus
pioneer Edward Bernays, to persuade American women to end the Great Depression through
consumer purchases. Although the campaign failed, it is historically significant, illustrating how PR
and magazines worked together to prescribe women’s roles—a point little explored by feminist
historians. While some women read the campaign hegemonically, others resisted its message, even
adapting campaign language to suggest alternative plans. Foremost among these, I argue, was
Eleanor Roosevelt (ER), whose 1933 book title, It’s Up to the Women, is identical to the campaign’s
slogan. Attributed to ER alone, the slogan has been reprised in twenty-first-century Democratic
presidential campaigns and used elsewhere. Patriotic shopping has also reemerged in recent crises.
Although less important to feminists, FDR’s (Franklin D. Roosevelt) famous “fear” line from his First
Inaugural address resembles language in LHJ’s campaign. Thus, the campaign can be seen not
only as a site where the contested nature of women’s roles was played out but one that illustrates
how media language can be repurposed to shape changing cultural and political messages."
Amendment, which eliminated sex restriction on voting rights. This article
uses the concept of myth to examine how Nashville newspapers made
suffrage part of the discursive battle for regional identity. While the
Nashville Banner amplified anti-suffragists’ “Old South” propaganda
of the Lost Cause and southern honor, Nashville Tennessean coverage
was grounded in the “New South” myth’s national, progressive focus.
The two newspapers’ publishers took their positions beyond their pages
by becoming participants in the political contest.
"
In chapters aimed at helping readers understand women’s lives in the 1960s, Mad Men is used as a springboard to explore and discover alternative ways of seeing women. Offering more than a discussion of the show itself, the book offers historical insight for thinking about serious issues that “modern” working women continue to face today: balancing their work and personal lives, competing with other women, and controlling their own bodies and reproductive choices.
Rather than critiquing the show for portraying women as victims, the book shows subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) ways that feminism functioned in an era when women were supposedly caught between the “waves” of the women’s movement but when, the authors argue, they functioned nonetheless as empowered individuals.
By doing so, it provides historical context and analysis that complicates traditional interpretations by (1) exploring historical constructions of women’s work; (2) unpacking feminist and non-feminist discourses surrounding that work; (3) identifying modes of re¬sistance; and (4) revisiting forgotten work coded as feminine.
ISBN 978-1-4331-2419-8 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4539-1254-6 (e-book)
"
Abridged Contents: Introduction: Runner-Up For Man Of The Year. Women, Work, and Femininity. The Interwar Years: Shifting Roles and Discontent. Growing Media Influence. Material Forces, Media Rituals. Femininity—Imposed Limitations. Examining Interwar Magazines. Reinforcing Domestic Discourses, Chapters. The Forgotten Workforce: Women, Work, and Magazines From Colonial Times To The Great Depression. “Noe Idle Drones”—Women and Work in Colonial America. Women, Ladies, Labor, and the Industrial Revolution. After the Civil War—Expanding Options, Emerging Controversies. “All Right, We Are Two Nations”—The Interwar Years. Work and Sex—the Modern Woman. “Doctor? Lawyer? Merchant? Chief?”: Opportunities, Contradictions, Controversies. Recruiting Women in Wartime . From Duty to Opportunity—the Postwar World. Protective Legislation—Help or Hindrance? The Girl Invaders. Essentializing Employed Women. Harm to Men, Children, Other Women. Office Machine, Office Wife: The “Business Girl” in Magazines. The “Typewriter” Emerges. The Business Girl—Efficient, Faceless, Marriageable. Sexualized Machines. Windows and Worship. Office Debutantes, Office Wives. The Telephone Operator—Nobody’s Office Wife. The Expert and the Exception: Teachers, Nurses, Corsetières, and “Others”. Woman as Expert Woman. Woman as Exception. Women’s Bodies, Women’s Jobs: Looks and Health in the Workplace. Body Types and the Employed Woman. Women’s Bodies on the Job . Health and the Employed Woman. The “Two-Job Wife”: Married Women and Careers. Married Women in the Workplace. The Two-Job Wife in Magazines. Professional Couples, Personal Stories. The Two-Job Wife Faces the Depression. Promoting the Two-Job Lifestyle. Opportunity And The Crisis: Visibility For African American Women Workers. Magazines and the Black Press. Postwar Optimism. Combatting Sexism Alongside Racism. Profiling Successful Women. Paid Work and Motherhood. The Depression. Employed Women in Stories and Poems. “Take A Letter, Mr. Jones”: The Employed Woman Defines Herself. Anonymous Voices. “Take a Letter, Mr. Jones”. A New Social Order— Independent Woman. “Does Your ’Do Reveal What You Do?”: The Symbolic Echo of Media Stereotypes. The Inheritance of Stereotypes. Return of the Office Wife. Two-Job Wives and Superwomen. Advice for Young Women. Global Images. Afterword: Why Media Representations of Employed Women Matter. Bibliography. Author Index. Subject Index.
pioneer Edward Bernays, to persuade American women to end the Great Depression through
consumer purchases. Although the campaign failed, it is historically significant, illustrating how PR
and magazines worked together to prescribe women’s roles—a point little explored by feminist
historians. While some women read the campaign hegemonically, others resisted its message, even
adapting campaign language to suggest alternative plans. Foremost among these, I argue, was
Eleanor Roosevelt (ER), whose 1933 book title, It’s Up to the Women, is identical to the campaign’s
slogan. Attributed to ER alone, the slogan has been reprised in twenty-first-century Democratic
presidential campaigns and used elsewhere. Patriotic shopping has also reemerged in recent crises.
Although less important to feminists, FDR’s (Franklin D. Roosevelt) famous “fear” line from his First
Inaugural address resembles language in LHJ’s campaign. Thus, the campaign can be seen not
only as a site where the contested nature of women’s roles was played out but one that illustrates
how media language can be repurposed to shape changing cultural and political messages."
Amendment, which eliminated sex restriction on voting rights. This article
uses the concept of myth to examine how Nashville newspapers made
suffrage part of the discursive battle for regional identity. While the
Nashville Banner amplified anti-suffragists’ “Old South” propaganda
of the Lost Cause and southern honor, Nashville Tennessean coverage
was grounded in the “New South” myth’s national, progressive focus.
The two newspapers’ publishers took their positions beyond their pages
by becoming participants in the political contest.
"