"This original work considers the advertising women and historians who encouraged modern American culture to continually embrace real and imagined historical women, not just as actors, but as heralding feminism."
Only in recent decades has the American academic profession taken women’s history seriously. But the very concept of women’s history has a much longer past, one that’s intimately entwined with the development of American advertising and consumer culture.
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Selling Women's History: Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture | Emily Westkaemper. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
