From personal to public: Women's liberation and the print media in the United States, 1968-1974

This dissertation examines how definitions of feminism were created and interpreted by the American media, and how this affected the development of the women's liberation movement. It specifically analyzes women's liberation rhetoric as it appeared in liberationist publications and the subsequent interpretation of that rhetoric by the popular print media. It addresses liberationist ideas in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s and shows how the print media attempted (both consciously and unconsciously) to control and deradicalize the messages of the women's movement through their interpretation of feminist ideas.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

American Studies

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Kaminski, Theresa

Contributors dc:contributor

• Michel, Sonya

• American Studies
• History, United States
• Women's Studies
• Mass Communications

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1992 Kaminski, Theresa

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9236496
(UMI)AAI9236496

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/23655