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Article: Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media.(Brief Article)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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Susan Douglas, "Pundit Watch" columnist for The Progressive, has written a witty, perceptive account of the conflicting images the media have displayed about women from the 1950s to the present. Rather than taking a reductionist view of the media, Douglas points out that the media conveyed both feminist and antifeminist messages. "The common wisdom about the unremitting sexism of popular culture, and our lemming-like acquiescence to it, can't be quite right," she says, since girls who devoured the media's offerings soon became feminists. "The truth is that growing up female with the mass media helped make me a feminist, and it helped make millions of other women feminists, ...