Institute on National Affairs – Mass Media and Culture in America – Motherhood in the Media: The Last 30 Years
Susan Douglas
Thursday, 06 Feb 2003 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Susan Douglas is the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies at The University of Michigan, and author of Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, Where The Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media, and Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922. She recently completed a book examining representations of motherhood in the media from the late 1960s to the present.
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