Description: Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media
Brief description:
Carolyn Kitch is associate professor of journalism at Temple University. She is a former senior editor of Good Housekeeping and associate editor of McCall's.
Review Quotes:
"Through her insightful readings of cover art from magazines . . . Kitch illuminates a fascinating and important moment in American cultural history, when national advertising combined with national magazines to articulate and commercialize a new and uniquely American sense of identity. . . . Kitch has seamlessly integrated her historical analysis of visual stereotypes with a wide range of relevant theoretical perspectives, including feminist theory, gender studies, art history, and the cultural history of advertising. . . . Kitch's analysis offers a fresh perspective on the well-worn terrain of women's service magazines." -- Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly