Changing theoretical perspectives on women's media images: The emergence of patterns in a new area of historical scholarship

Journalism and Mass Communication Quaterly

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 477-489

  Kitch, Carolyn ^a  

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DOI: 10.1177/107769909707400303     Document Type: Review

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60. One recent example of a scholarly work,that offers a historical perspective on women's television imagery is Bonnie J. Dow, Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement Since 1970 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996).