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From personal to public: Women's liberation and the print media in the United States, 1968-1974

Kaminski, Theresa

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Title
From personal to public: Women's liberation and the print media in the United States, 1968-1974
Author(s)
Kaminski, Theresa
Issue Date
1992
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Michel, Sonya
Department of Study
  • American Studies
  • History, United States
  • Women's Studies
  • Mass Communications
Discipline
  • American Studies
  • History, United States
  • Women's Studies
  • Mass Communications
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
  • American Studies
  • History, United States
  • Women's Studies
  • Mass Communications
Language
eng
Abstract
This dissertation examines how definitions of feminism were created and interpreted by the American media, and how this affected the development of the women's liberation movement. It specifically analyzes women's liberation rhetoric as it appeared in liberationist publications and the subsequent interpretation of that rhetoric by the popular print media. It addresses liberationist ideas in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s and shows how the print media attempted (both consciously and unconsciously) to control and deradicalize the messages of the women's movement through their interpretation of feminist ideas.
Type of Resource
text
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Copyright 1992 Kaminski, Theresa

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