Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture, 1880s to 1910s

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Year of Publication
1996
Contributors Author: Ellen Gruber Garvey
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Number of Pages
230 pp.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
City
New York, NY
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ISBN
9780195108224
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Contents: Readers read advertising into their lives: the trade card scrapbook Training the reader's attention: advertising contests "The commercial spirit has entered in": speech, fiction, and advertising Reframing the bicycle: magazines and scorching women Rewriting Mrs. Consumer: class, gender, and consumption "Men who advertise": ad readers and ad writers Conclusion: technology and fiction