Gender and Consumer Culture
Adkins Covert, Tawnya J. Manipulating Images: World War II Mobilization of Women through Magazine Advertising. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011.
Alexander, Eleanor. “Woman’s Place is in the Tea Room: White Middle-Class American Women as Entrepreneurs and Customers.” Journal of American Culture 32:2 (2009): 126-136.
Altman, Karen E. “Television as Gendered Technology: Advertising the American Television Set.” Journal of Popular Film and Television 17:2 (Summer 1989): 46-56.
Banta, Martha. Imaging American Women. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.
Barthel, Dianne. Putting on Appearances: Gender and Advertising. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988.
Beecher, Mary Anne. “Building for Mrs. Farmer: Published Farmhouse Designs and the Role of the Rural Female Consumer, 1900-1930.” Agricultural History 73 (Spring 1999): 252-262.
Behling, Laura L. “The Woman at the Wheel: Marketing Ideal Womanhood, 1915-1934.” Journal of American Culture 20:3 (1997): 13-30.
Behling, Laura. L. “Fisher’s Bodies: Automobile Advertisements and the Framing of Modern American Female Identity.” The Centennial Review 41:3 (1997): 515-529.
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Bizri, Zayna N. “Recruiting Women Into the World War II Military: The Office of War Information, Advertising, and Gender.” PhD dissertation, George Mason University, 2017.
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Breazeale, Kenon. “In Spite of Women: Esquire Magazine and the Construction of the Male Consumer.” Signs 20 (Autumn 1994): 1-22.
Brewer, Priscilla K. From Fireplace to Cookstove: Technology and the Domestic Identity. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000.
Budgeon, Shelley, and Dawn H. Currie. “From Feminism to Post-Feminism: Women’s Liberation in Fashion Magazines.” Women’s Studies International Forum 18:2 (1995): 173-186.
Bufalino, Jamie Mayhew. “Reinventing the Body Politic: Women, Consumer Culture, and the Civic Identity from Suffrage to the New Deal.” PhD dissertation, University of California, Riverside, 2009.
Burt, Elizabeth V. “From ‘True Woman’ to ‘New Woman’: An Analysis of the Lydia Pinkham ‘Animated Ads’ of 1890.” Journalism History 37:4 (Winter 2012): 190-206.
Cieply, Stefan Konstantyn, “The Lineaments of Personality: ‘Esquire’ and the Problem of the Male Consumer” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006).
Cieply, Stefan K. “The Uncommon Man: Esquire and the Problem of the North American Male Consumer, 1957–6.3” Gender & History 22 (April 2010): 151–168.
Clair, Blanche, and Dorothy Dignam. Advertising Careers for Women. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1939.
Cook, Daniel Thomas. The Moral Project of Childhood: Motherhood, Material Life, and Early Children’s Consumer Culture. New York: NYU Press, 2020.
Cook, Sylvia Jenkins. “‘Oh Dear! How the Factory Girls Do Rig Up!’: Lowell’s Self-Fashioning Workingwomen.” New England Quarterly 83 (June 2010): 219–249.
Courtney, Alice E., and Sarah Wernick Lockeretz. “A Woman’s Place: An Analysis of the Roles Portrayed by Women in Magazine Advertisements.” Journal of Marketing Research 8:1 (February 1971): 92-95.
Cox, Nicole C. “Selling Seduction: Women and Feminine Nature in 1920s Florida Advertising.” Florida Historical Quarterly 89 (Fall 2010): 186–209.
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technologies from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. New York: Basic Books, 1983.
Davis, Simone W. Living Up to the Ads: Genders Fictions of the 1920s. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
De Grazia, Victoria, and Ellen Furlough, eds., The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Deutsch, Tracey. Building a Housewife’s Paradise: Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Dominick, Joseph R. and Gail E. Rauch. “The Image of Women in Network TV Commercials.” Journal of Broadcasting 16:3 (1972): 259-265.
Donohue, Kathleen G. “What Gender is the Consumer? The Role of Gender Connotations in Defining the Political.” Journal of American Studies 33:1 (April 1999): 19-44.
Epstein, Pamela Ilyse. “Selling Love: The Commercialization of Intimacy in America, 1860s–1900s.” PhD dissertation, Rutgers University, 2010.
Ewen, Elizabeth. Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars. Life and Culture on the Lower East Side, 1890-1925. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1985.
Finnegan, Margaret. Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
Fizer, Natalie, and Glenn Forley. “Advertising Gentility: Ovals and Mass Market Women’s Magazines, 1910–1960,” in Re-creating the American Past: Essays on the Colonial Revival, ed. Richard Guy Wilson, Shaun Eyring, and Kenny Marotta, 336–50. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006.
Fox, Bonnie J. “Selling the Mechanized Household: Seventy Years of Ads in the Ladies’ Home Journal.” Gender and Society 4 (March 1990): 25-40.
Francois, Samantha Y. “Girls with Influence: Selling Consumerism to Teenage Girls, 1940-1960.” PhD dissertation, University of California-Davis, 2003.
Fraterrigo, Elizabeth. “The Happy Housewife Heroine and the Sexual Sell: Legacies of Betty Friedan’s Critique of the Image of Women.” Frontiers 36:2 (2015): 33-40.
Frederick, Christine McGaffey. Selling Mrs. Consumer. New York: Bourse, 1929.
Garvey, Ellen Gruber. Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Gerl, Ellen J., and Craig L. Davis. “Selling Detroit on Women: Women’s Day and Auto Advertising, 1964-82.” Journalism History 38:4 (Winter 2013): 209-220.
Ghilani, Jessica. “Glamour-izing Military Service: Army Recruitment for Women in Vietnam-Era Advertisements.” American Journalism 34:2 (Spring 2017): 201-228.
Gidlow, Liette. The Big Vote: Gender, Consumer Culture, and the Politics of Exclusion, 1890s- 1920s. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Gidlow, Liette. “The Deeper Meaning of Tupperware: Consumer Culture and the American Home.” Journal of Women’s History 24:3 (Fall 2012): 195-203.
Gilbert, James. Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Goffman, Erving. Gender Advertisements. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976.
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Goggin, Maureen Daly, and Beth Fowkes Tobin, eds. Women and Things, 1750-1950: Gendered Material Strategies. New York: Routledge, 2009.
Goldstein, Carolyn M. “Mediating Consumption: Home Economics and American Consumption, 1900-1940.” PhD dissertation, University of Delaware, 1994.
Goldstein, Carolyn M. “Part of the Package: Home Economists in the Consumer Products Industries, 1920-1940.” in Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession, edited by Sara Stage and Virginia Vincenti. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Gordon, Sarah. Make it Yourself: Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
Gottschall, William Peter, Jr. “Imaging Men, Masculinity, and Fatherhood in Magazine Advertising: Ideological and Hegemonic Constructions of Masculinity and Fatherhood in Magazine Advertising (1960–2000).” PhD dissertation, Carleton University, Canada, 2008.
Guadagnolo, Dan. “A Superb Example of the Common Man: J.C. Leyendecker and the Staging of Male Consumer Desire in American Commercial Illustration, 1907-1931.” American Studies 58:4 (2019): 5-32.
Harrington-Lueker, Donna. “Finding a Market for Suffrage: Advertising and The Revolution, 1868-70.” Journalism History 33:3 (Fall 2007): 130-139.
Henthorn, Cynthia L. “Commercial Fallout: The Image of Progress, the Culture of War, and the Feminine Consumer, 1939-1959.” Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, 1997.
Higley, Merle. Women in Advertising in New York Agencies. New York: YWCA, 1924.
Hill, Daniel Delis. Advertising to the American Woman, 1900-1999. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2002.
Horowitz, Roger and Arwen Mohun, eds., His and Hers: Gender, Consumption, and Technology. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998.*
Horowitz, Roger, ed. Boys and Their Toys: Masculinity, Class, and Technology in America. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Howard, Vicki Jo. “American Weddings: Gender, Consumption, and the Business of Brides.” PhD dissertation, University of Texas, 2000.
Howard, Vicki. “A ‘Real Man’s Ring’: Gender and the Invention of Tradition.” Journal of Social History 36:4 (Summer 2003): 837-856.
Inness, Sherrie A., ed. Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
Jacobson, Lisa S. “Raising Consumers: Children, Childrearing, and the American Mass Market, 1890-1940.” PhD dissertation, University of California- Los Angeles, 1997.
Jacobson, Lisa. “Manly Boys and Enterprising Dreamers: Business Ideology and the Construction of the Boy Consumer, 1910-1930.” Enterprise and Society 2 (June 2001): 225-258.
Jacobson, Lisa. “Fashion, Feminism, and the Pleasures and Perils of Consumer Fantasy.” Journal of Women’s History 22:1 (April 2010): 178-187.
Jobling, Paul. Man Appeal: Advertising, Modernism and Men’s Wear. New York: Berg, 2005.
Johnson, David K. “Physique Pioneers: The Politics of 1960s Gay Consumer Culture.” Journal of Social History 43:4 (Summer 2010): 867-892.
Johnson, David K. Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
Johnson, Emily. “Who Would Know Better Than the Girls in White? Nurses as Experts in Postwar Magazine Advertising.” Nursing History Review 20 (2012): 46-71.
Johnson, Val Marie. “‘Look for the Moral and Sex Sides of the Problem’: Investigating Jewishness, Desire, and Discipline at Macy’s Department Store, New York City, 1913.” Journal of the History of Sexuality18 (September 2009): 457–485.
Kervin, Denise. “Advertising Masculinity: The Representation of Males in Esquire Advertisements.” Journal of Communication Inquiry 14:1 (1990): 51-70.
Kline, Ronald R. “Ideology and Social Surveys: Reinterpreting the Effects of ‘Laborsaving’ Technology on American Farm Women.” Technology and Culture 38:2 (1997): 355-385.
Kreydatus, Elizabeth A. “Marketing to the ‘Liberated’ Woman: Feminism, Social Change, and Beauty Culture, 1960–2000.” PhD dissertation, College of William and Mary, 2005.
Leach, William R. “Transformation in a Culture of Consumption: Women and Department Stores, 1890-1925.” Journal of American History 71:2 (September 1984): 319-342.
This essay explores the emergence of a culture of consumption in American society and its effects on women. As Leach argues, this new culture had a “transformative effect” on women. Without attempting to overlook lingering oppression or the manipulative aspects of consumerism, Leach finds that women during this period increasingly found work outside the home and asserted a new level of independence. The new consumer culture offered new freedom from self-denial and repression; the department store itself became a place where women could meet outside of the home and interact in a new way. Moreover, most of the workers in department stores were female, which gave many women the freedom that comes through earning power. Leach discusses efforts made by store managers to attract women customers and make them feel comfortable. Shopping became for some a form of recreation rather than a tedious chore. The overall effect, according to the essay, was to allow women a greater opportunity to carve out a public space for themselves, which was one part of the broader movement toward equality. Scholars who focus too intently on the negative and manipulative aspects of increased consumerism and, Leach acknowledges, tend to overlook positive elements that really did empower women in important ways.
Leavitt, Sarah A. From Catherine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Lemus, Cheryl. “Save Your Baby, Save Ten Percent.” Journal of Women’s History 25:3 (Fall 2013): 165-187.
Lerman, Nina E., Ruth Odenziel, and Arwen P. Mohun, eds. Gender and Technology: A Reader. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Levine, Susan. “Workers’ Wives: Gender, Class, and Consumerism in the 1920s United States.” Gender and History 3 (Spring 1991): 45-64.
Lewis, Charles, and John Neville. “Images of Rosie: A Content Analysis of Women Workers in American Magazine Advertising, 1940-1946.” Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly 72:1 (1995): 216-227.
Loeb, Lori Anne. Consuming Angels: Advertising and Victorian Women. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Lubar, Steven. “Men/Women/Production/Consumption” in His and Hers: Gender, Consumption, and Technology, Roger Horowitz and Arwen Mohun, eds. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998.
Lundstrom, William J., and Donald Sciglimpaglia. “Sex Role Portrayals in Advertising.” Journal of Marketing 41:3 (July 1977): 72-76.
Lupton, Ellen. Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Lyth, Peter. “‘Think of Her as Your Mother’: Airline Advertising and the Stewardess in America, 1930–1980.” Journal of Transport History 30 (June 2009): 1–21.
Mandziuk, Roseann M. “‘Ending Women’s Greatest Hygienic Mistake’: Modernity and the Mortification of Menstruation in Kotex Advertising, 1921–1926.” Women’s Studies Quarterly 38 (Fall–Winter 2010): 42-62
Manko, Katina Lee. “Ding Dong, Avon Calling: Gender, Business, and Door-to-Door Selling, 1890-1955.” PhD dissertation, University of Delaware, 2001.
Marine-Street, Natalie Jean. “Agents Wanted: Sales, Gender, and the Making of Consumer Markets in America, 1830-1930.” PhD dissertation, Stanford University, 2016.
Massoni, Kelley. “Teena Goes to Market”: Seventeen Magazine and the Early Construction of the Teen Girl as Consumer.” Journal of American Culture 29 (March 2006): 31- 42.
Matthews, Glenna. Just a Housewife: The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Maxcy, David Joseph. “Advertising, the Gender System: Changing Configurations of Femininity and Masculinity in Early Advertising in the United States.” PhD dissertation, University of Massachusetts, 1994.
Mehaffy, Marilyn Maness. “Advertising Race/Raceing Advertising: The Feminine Consumer(-nation), 1876-1900.” Signs23:1 (Autumn 1997): 131-174.
Miller, Roger. “Selling Mrs. Consumer: Advertising and the Creation of Suburban Socio-Spatial Relations, 1910-1930.” Antipode 23:3 (1991): 263-306.
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Neuhaus, Jessamyn. Housework and Housewives in American Advertising: Married to the Mop. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Neuhaus, Jessamyn. “A Little Bit of Love You Can Wrap Your Baby In’: Mothers, Fathers, Race, and Representations of Nurturing in 1960s-1970s Pampers Advertising.” Advertising & Society Review 14:3 (2013).
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Parkin, Katherine. “Driving Home Class Status: Women and Car Advertising in the United States.” Advertising & Society Quarterly 20:2 (2019).
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A collection of essays based on the theme of relationships between beauty and commercial culture. The overall collection is an examination of how commerce shapes images of gender and race, and dictates fashion and popular culture. Individual essays examine images of men in business leadership, the afro hairstyle, Chinese-American beauty contests, the cigarette, cosmetics, Maidenform bras, and other manifestations of the “beauty culture.” See also Kathy Peiss’ introduction to the volume. These essays are based on papers given at a conference at the Hagley Library.
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