Wondrous innocence: Print advertising and the origins of permissive child rearing in the US

Journal of Consumer Culture

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 183-201

  Cross, Gary ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commercialization; Cute; Ladies Home Journal; Romanticism; Saturday Evening Post; Toys; Trade cards

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745801893     PISSN: 14695405     EISSN: 17412900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1469540504043681     Document Type: Article

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