Polly Pigtails the Magazine for Girls
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michelle Nolan
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-03-21
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1476604908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the better part of three decades romance comics were an American institution. Nearly 6000 titles were published between 1947 and 1977, and for a time one in five comics sold in the U.S. was a romance comic. This first full-length study examines the several types of romance comics, their creators and publishing history. The author explores significant periods in the development of the genre, including the origins of Archie Comics and other teen publications, the romance comic "boom and bust" of the 1950s, and their sudden disappearance when fantasy and superhero comics began to dominate in the late 1970s.
Author: Kathleen L. Endres
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1995-07-24
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 031302930X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsumer magazines aimed at women are as diverse as the market they serve. Some are targeted to particular age groups, while others are marketed to different socioeconomic groups. These magazines are a reflection of the needs and interests of women and the place of women in American society. Changes in these magazines mirror the changing interests of women, the increased purchasing power of women, and the willingness of advertisers and publishers to reach a female audience. This reference book is a guide to women's consumer magazines published in the United States. Included are profiles of 75 magazines read chiefly by women. Each profile discusses the publication history and social context of the magazine and includes bibliographical references and a summary of publication statistics. Some of the magazines included started in the 19th century and are no longer published. Others have been available for more than a century, while some originated in the last decade. An introductory chapter discusses the history of U.S. consumer women's magazines, and a chronology charts their growth from 1784 to the present.
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Published: 1955
Total Pages: 574
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 838
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 836
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Author: Gary Cross
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-04-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0190288868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe twentieth century was, by any reckoning, the age of the child in America. Today, we pay homage at the altar of childhood, heaping endless goods on the young, reveling in memories of a more innocent time, and finding solace in the softly backlit memories of our earliest years. We are, the proclamation goes, just big kids at heart. And, accordingly, we delight in prolonging and inflating the childhood experiences of our offspring. In images of the naughty but nice Buster Brown and the coquettish but sweet Shirley Temple, Americans at mid-century offered up a fantastic world of treats, toys, and stories, creating a new image of the child as "cute." Holidays such as Christmas and Halloween became blockbuster affairs, vehicles to fuel the bedazzled and wondrous innocence of the adorable child. All this, Gary Cross illustrates, reflected the preoccupations of a more gentle and affluent culture, but it also served to liberate adults from their rational and often tedious worlds of work and responsibility. But trouble soon entered paradise. The "cute" turned into "cool" as children, following their parental example, embraced the gift of fantasy and unrestrained desire to rebel against the saccharine excesses of wondrous innocence in deliberate pursuit of the anti-cute. Movies, comic books, and video games beckoned to children with the allures of an often violent, sexualized, and increasingly harsh worldview. Unwitting and resistant accomplices to this commercial transformation of childhood, adults sought-over and over again, in repeated and predictable cycles-to rein in these threats in a largely futile jeremiad to preserve the old order. Thus, the cute child-deliberately manufactured and cultivated--has ironically fostered a profoundly troubled ambivalence toward youth and child rearing today. Expertly weaving his way through the cultural artifacts, commercial currents, and parenting anxieties of the previous century, Gary Cross offers a vibrant and entirely fresh portrait of the forces that have defined American childhood.
Author: Debra Sue Latiolais
Publisher: Monkey Puzzle Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780989050500
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Polly believes that nothing is more important than being the prettiest girl at school--and her pigtails are her trademark. But an incident with the class bully helps Polly discover the meaning of true beauty"--book jacket.