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From the Gibson Girl to the flapper, from the vamp to the New Woman, Carolyn Kitch traces mass media images of women to their historical roots on magazine covers, unveiling the origins of gender stereotypes in early-twentieth-century American culture.
Kitch examines the years from 1895 to 1930 as a time when the first wave of feminism intersected with the rise of new technologies and media for the reproduction and dissemination of visual images. Access to suffrage, higher education, the professions, and contraception broadened women's opportunities, but the images found on magazine covers emphasized the role of women as consumers: suffrage was reduced to spending, sexuality to sexiness, and a collective women's movement to individual choices of personal style. In the 1920s, Kitch argues, the political prominence of the New Woman dissipated, but her visual image pervaded print media.
With seventy-five photographs of cover art by the era's most popular illustrators, The Girl on the Magazine Cover shows how these images created a visual vocabulary for understanding femininity and masculinity, as well as class status. Through this iconic process, magazines helped set cultural norms for women, for men, and for what it meant to be an American, Kitch contends.
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In a noteworthy study of visual stereotypes in the mass media of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Kitch (Temple Univ.) argues that to understand current stereotypes of women, one has to turn back to this earlier period when stereotypes "from older, matronly activist to the dangerous but beautiful radical to the cute, skinny, sexually free girl" were emerging. The author explores a "visual vocabulary of womanhood" and how it has shaped women's lives in the US. Focusing in particular on the changing image of women on covers from such diverse popular magazines as Ladies' Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, The Masses, The Crisis, Life, McCall's, and Good Housekeeping, Kitch examines how these depictions have shaped gender roles. Ranging from the Gibson girl to the female activist to the patriotic girl to the flapper, Kitch's book examines a wide variety of stereotypical images of womanhood. Her copious knowledge of the publishing industry and her thought-provoking argument make this book a must-read for anyone interested in media or gender studies. This unusually well-crafted book will hold the attention of a wide audience, and belongs in all academic and public libraries. S. A. Inness Miami University
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It seems that each time the American woman begins to veer toward feminism, mainstream magazines put her back in her "proper" place, portraying her as wife, mother, and consumer. Kitch (journalism, Temple Univ.) traces the early development of this trend, beginning in the 1890s with Alice Barber Stephens's "American Woman" series and ending 30 years later with the ideal families depicted by Norman Rockwell and Jessie Willcox Smith. In between, she considers such influential icons as the flapper, the vamp, the nurse, the "girl graduate," and Charles Dana Gibson's eponymous representation of womanhood, who is tellingly called a girl, not a woman. Kitch places each of these stereotypes in context, not just historically but also within the avowed agenda of the artist or editor. In the last chapter, she discusses the dual role of prominent illustrators who worked simultaneously for magazines and advertisers; this shared imagery, Kitch asserts, "created a blueprint for the routine blurring of editorial and advertising messages in mass media." This engaging, insightful study is recommended for most libraries. Susan M. Colowick, North Olympic Lib. Syst., Port Angeles, WA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.