Watching Women's Liberation, 1970 : Feminism's Pivotal Year on the Network News.
Title:
Watching Women's Liberation, 1970 : Feminism's Pivotal Year on the Network News.
Author:
Dow, Bonnie J.
ISBN:
9780252096488
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: 1970 -- 1. The Movement Meets the Press: The 1968 Miss American Pageant Protest -- 2. The Movement Makes the News: Network News Feature Stories on Women's Liberation in 1970 -- 3. Magazines and the Marketing of the Movement: The March 1970 Ladies' Home Journal Protest -- 4. Fixing the Meaning of the Movement: ABC's May 1970 "Women's Liberation" Documentary -- 5. Making a Spectacle of the Movement: The August 26, 1970, Women's Strike for Equality -- 6. After 1970: Second-Wave Feminism, Mediated Popular Memory, and Gloria Steinem -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
The story of how broadcast news portrayed feminism's mainstream emergence in a single landmark year.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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