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Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media Paperback – March 28, 1995

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Media critic Douglas deconstructs the ambiguous messages sent to American women via TV programs, popular music, advertising, and nightly news reporting over the last 40 years, and fathoms their influence on her own life and the lives of her contemporaries. Photos.
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An insightful, witty, and well-written analysis of the effects of mass-media on women in late 20th-century American culture. Douglas cuts through the fluff that spews from the tube with a finely-honed sense of the absurd that can forever change (or minimally, inform) how you perceive the changing portrayals of women by the media. The only book I know of that has been given highest recommendations by Gloria Steinem, The McLaughlin Group, and Amazon.com.

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Provocative...rollicking...peppy and indignant -- The New York Times

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crown; Reprint edition (March 28, 1995)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0812925300
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0812925302
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.46 x 0.89 x 8.25 inches
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Susan J. Douglas is the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Communication Studies, and former department chair, at The University of Michigan. Her new book, In Our Prime: How Older Women are Reinventing the Road Ahead is forthcoming in March 2020 from Norton. She is author of Celebrity: A History of Fame (NYU Press, with Andrea McDonnell), The Rise of Enlightened Sexism: How Pop Culture Took us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2010); The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How it Undermines Women (with Meredith Michaels, The Free Press, 2004); Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination (Times Books, 1999), which won the Hacker Prize in 2000 for the best popular book about technology and culture, Where The Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media (Times Books, 1994; Penguin, 1995) and Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922 (Johns Hopkins, 1987). She has lectured at colleges and universities around the country, and has written for The Nation, In These Times, The Village Voice, Ms., The Washington Post and TV Guide, and was media critic for The Progressive from 1992-1998. Her column “Back Talk” was featured for over twenty years in In These Times. She has appeared on The Today Show, The CBS Early Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Working Woman, CNBC's Equal Time, NPR's Fresh Air, Weekend Edition, The Diane Rehm Show, Talk of the Nation, Michael Feldman’s Whad’ya Know and various radio talk shows around the country. Where the Girls Are was widely praised, and chosen one of the top ten books of 1994 by National Public Radio, Entertainment Weekly and The McLaughlin Group. She served on the Board of the George Foster Peabody awards from 2005-2010, and in 2010 was selected as Chair of the Board. She is the 2009 recipient of the Leonardo Da Vinci Prize, the highest honor given by the Society for the History of Technology to an individual who has greatly contributed to the history of technology through research, teaching, publications, and other activities. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband.

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Lyn Kratka Kusher
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!!
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2012
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I really loved reading this book. It made me laugh so hard as I am a female, mom, wife born in the 1950s so everything she shares about being a female of these times was right on. I had an angry mother with too many children, too much work, a macho husband and not enough money and swore that I would never be like her. Lo and behold, I ended up more like her than I wanted to admit so while analyzing my own faults, this book was recommended to me. Yeah!! It made me lighten up on myself while understanding a media message that was and is larger than all of us women together. I see a environment where they pitted us woman against each other and still do. Maybe they are afraid of us being united without the hairy legs of the 70's. (Bad joke) This book was funny, engaging and a must read especially if you are from the 50's or 60's. It works for 70's and 80's too I am sure but this has a very powerful message delivered with humor. Thank God. I always joke about the "Sleeping Beauty" song, "Some Day My Prince Will Come" not really understanding the power those songs and movies had on me as a child. Highly recommend!
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Nature Lady
5.0 out of 5 stars This book pulled it all together
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2013
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I loved this book as it pulled my experience of growing up--the music, the TV shows--through the 50's and 60's and how the media shaped up and how we shaped the media to demand the changes to culture that were necessary (the women's movement). There is a follow-up book that continues the stories from the 90's to the 2000's called Enlightened Sexism. I'm looking forward to finishing it as something happened to halt our progress. But I did learn from the first book that that's the way it goes. There is a constant push-pull and getting the perspective looking back that you just can't while you're in it was so informative.
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Laura
3.0 out of 5 stars Obscure references
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2007
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For anyone born after the baby boomers, the constant references to TV shows, music, and movies for illustrating points makes the book nearly unreadable.

She draws almost exclusively on the feelings people felt while watching or listening while growing up. Having missed that generation, I can't identify with that woman. I believe her premise, that women are shaped by the messages they receive growing up, is accurate, but she does a poor job of illustrating it to anyone outside her generation (and maybe inside, I don't know).

I'd love to see this book redone with a little more relevance to all women.
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Rachel Weeks
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Insight
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2013
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Wonderfully written, Great insight into the journey that is women in America. Douglas does a superb job of comedy and satire mixed in with serious and relevant issues to today. She slams old fashioned stereotypes and gives a great history of the evolution of women in America from the 40's even though it wasn't written to 2013 I would still argue to now. A great read for women and men because she gives perspective to the culture, media, and influences for both genders. I would highly recommend it to all to gain a greater perspective. She's very witty and knows what she's talking about
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Over 70% of this book has been highlighted or written in. This book should be retired or the description made clear to a renter that they can expect this low quality. Common knowledge is you don’t write in text books that are rented and not owned. 😡
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L. Campbell
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and humorous academic read.
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2012
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I read an excerpt from this book for a women's studies class I was taking and liked it so much that I decided to buy the whole book. Douglas has a great writing style that is interesting and not overly dense. She manages to capture the essence of these serious issues in the media with humor and wit. She also touches on intersectionality when talking about various issues, which is key when doing any kind of feminist analysis. Overall, this was a great read.
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E.M. Bristol
4.0 out of 5 stars witty pop culture tour
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2005
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"Where the Girls Are" is a tour through and a look at how pop culture affected girls and women. It is a thought provoking, sarcastic, and very witty portrayal from a woman who admits to having an "attitude problem." The targets are taken from literature, movies, TV and music, and include everything and everyone from "Bewitched," The Shirelles, "Sex and the Single Girl," Charlie's Angels, Murphy Brown and Madonna. She also examines famous feminists'impact including Kate Millett, Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug. The book contains plenty of quotes from anti-feminists, as well, to show (at least in this reviewer's eyes) just how ridiculous if often effective the opposition to the Women's Movement was.

One thing. The author laments that role models in children's literature are "few and far between." Either she is making a blanket statement, or she has no experience. Young adult and children's lit, even back in 1994 when the book was published, are a treasure trove of strong, positive female heroines.
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Lexxie90
5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting and funny read.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 11, 2012
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I bought this book for my dissertation and ended up reading it for leisure! Very interesting reading about how things have progressed through a comedic author. Anyone interested in history and how society has changed should definately read this!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant book, a bit repetitive at points but really ...
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Brilliant book, a bit repetitive at points but really easy to follow and highly interesting. Definitely recommended for anyone interested in US feminism and the 60s.
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