Inarticulate Longings: The Ladies' Home Journal, Gender and the Promise of Consumer Culture
, by Scanlon,Jennifer- ISBN: 9780415911573 | 0415911575
- Cover: Nonspecific Binding
- Copyright: 9/29/1995
A cultural history based onThe Ladies' Home Journal,Inarticulate Longingsoffers a new and provocative perspective on the magazine, the advertising industry, and women's lives during the early twentieth century. The volume explores the contradictions of a social agenda for women that promoted both traditional roles and the promises of a growing consumer culture.