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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"women’s magazines"”.
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The construction of a particular version of the modern Indonesian women in contemporary Indonesian women's magazines
This thesis analyses the representation of women in two women’s magazines in Indonesia. It compares and contrasts the representation of women under the New Order Regime (1966-1998) and the Reformasi (reformation) period (1998-1999) through an analysis of the content of Kartini and Femina, between …
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Look Younger, Lose 10 Pounds, and Influence Your Audience: A Content Analysis of Popular Men's and Women's Magazine Cover Blurbs and the Messages They Project to Their Readers.
… examined cover blurbs on popular men’s and women’s magazines and the messages they communicate to their readers about women. The content analysis looked at the covers of Esquire, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, Vogue, and Good Housekeeping from 1999 through 2003 to see what these magazines were …
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Cocinando lo auténtico: La comida como patrimonio cultural en la producción discursiva puertorriqueña, siglos XIX-XXI
… manuals, food advertisements in newspapers and women’s magazines, literary works, and websites that promote tourism in Puerto Rico. The analysis of these publications focuses on how certain foods and culinary practices were preferred by the privileged sector of society and how the consumption of …
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The Moralisation of Eating
… moral concepts are used to advertise food in women’s magazines (Study 3). The results show that a third of food adverts use moralising concepts, a pattern that has remained stable over the last fifteen years. The third question is: ‘What is the impact on self-reported desire and observed …
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The House In The Museum Garden: Targeting Domestic Consumers In MoMA’s Architecture And Design Exhibitions
… designers, retail establishments, and women’s magazines, MoMA promoted modern architecture and design to American consumers as a way of living, fully embodied in the House in the Garden exhibitions, discussed at length here. The notion of viewer experience in exhibition design, the role …
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The New Man And The New Lad: Hegemonic Masculinities In Men's Lifestyle Magazines
… bookish. Heterocentric male focused lifestyle magazines rival women’s magazines in number and availability. Some men look to these images as a tool by which to gauge their masculinity and learn their social role performance. This inquiry includes a content analysis of four major men's lifestyle …
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Portrayals of Power: A Content Analysis of Gender Dominance in Magazine Advertisements
… of gender dominance in such advertisements. The magazines chosen for the study are three predominantly female magazines and three predominantly male magazines. Six issues from each magazine were sampled and only advertisements that fit the criteria of the study were utilized. A total of 202 …
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Often treated harshly: Girls and young women in 1957 Perth
… It researches various aspects of life for young women and teenage girls in Perth in 1957, that contrast with the idealised youthful femininity promoted by women’s magazines such as The Australian Women’s Weekly. It discusses status offences in the context of child welfare legislation and the …
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Knitting rebellion: Elizabeth Zimmermann, identity, and craftsmanship in post war America
… with decreasing pattern publications in national women’s magazines, and the demise of <em>Vogue Knitting Book</em> by the late nineteen-sixties. By 1990, it had rebounded into major new publications in periodicals and books, new and revived artisanship practices, gallery exhibitions and major …
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Critical media analysis of female soldier representation from magazines to Instagram : a cultural studies perspective
… advertisements found in three popular women’s magazines and on the official Instagram accounts of the U.S. military, three research questions are addressed: 1) What visual and/or textual codes found in female soldier representations are used to construct gendered cultural meanings …
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In The Pink: The (Un)Healthy Complexion of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
… than 20 years ago, a week-long event provided women with information about the disease. The appearance of this sort of awareness campaign was a first and it began to fill the void in public communication about breast cancer. Over the years, NBCAM discourse has helped break through the previous …
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In The Pink: The (Un)Healthy Complexion of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
… than 20 years ago, a week-long event provided women with information about the disease. The appearance of this sort of awareness campaign was a first and it began to fill the void in public communication about breast cancer. Over the years, NBCAM discourse has helped break through the previous …
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Made Visible: Women Artists and the Performance of Femininity in Modern Japanese Art, 1900-1930
… framework for understanding individual Japanese women artists’ work and the systems of gender oppression that characterized modern Japanese art. It does so by engaging with the visualization of Japanese women artists in the early twentieth century. In response to societal anxiety about the …
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Nazi "chic"? : Fashioning women in the Third Reich
During the Third Reich, women’s clothing became a site of contentious debate. Clothing, which the Nazis hoped would serve as a visible sign of inclusion into – or exclusion from – the Volksgemeinschaft, the national community, instead became a divisive wedge between the government and the majority …
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By Beauty Damned: Millennial Feminism and the Exploitation of Women's Empowerment in Pop Culture and Corporate Advertising
… by capitalists. Notions relating to “women’s empowerment” are used by capitalists to sell products to women, and yet many of those capitalists fund political campaigns that directly seek to quash or inhibit the advancement of women’s rights. With a little effort, any consumer can find …