Women in Popular Culture: A Reference Guide

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This book will be useful to those who want to know what reading materials are available on particular topics. Selections have been carefully made and the essays painstakingly summarize the contents of books and articles. Reference Books Bulletin

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This guide to works about women's roles and images in popular culture provides descriptive essays and bibliographical citations to scholarly and popular works on a variety of topics related to the general theme. Coverage includes ... women in popular culture, women's roles as depicted in popular literature, magazines and magazine fiction, films, television, advertising, fashion, sports, and comics, and theories of women in popular culture. Five appendixes provide additional documentation and listings of materials. This book will be useful to those who want to know what reading materials are available on particular topics. Selections have been carefully made and the essays painstakingly summarize the contents of books and articles.-Reference Books Bulletin
"This guide to works about women's roles and images in popular culture provides descriptive essays and bibliographical citations to scholarly and popular works on a variety of topics related to the general theme. Coverage includes ... women in popular culture, women's roles as depicted in popular literature, magazines and magazine fiction, films, television, advertising, fashion, sports, and comics, and theories of women in popular culture. Five appendixes provide additional documentation and listings of materials. This book will be useful to those who want to know what reading materials are available on particular topics. Selections have been carefully made and the essays painstakingly summarize the contents of books and articles."-Reference Books Bulletin

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KATHERINE FISHBURN is Professor of English at Michigan State University, where she teaches courses in African American literature, twentieth-century literature, women's literature, and cultural studies. She is author of a book on Richard Wright, a monograph on Doris Lessing, and three Greenwood Press titles: Reading Buchi Emecheta: Cross-Cultural Conversations (1995), The Unexpected Universe of Doris Lessing: A Study in Narrative Technique (1985), and Women in Popular Culture: A Reference Guide (1982).