Women in Media Today

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An essay discussing how the portrayal of women has changed in one segment of the media (music, TV, film, advertising) from the early 1990's when the book "Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female With the Mass Media" by Susan J. Douglas was completed. Discussed are the commonalities between women currently important to American pop culture and the women examined in the book, the differences or changes that have occurred, whether conditions have improved for women, and whether there has been a continued backlash against feminism in American popular culture over the last decade.

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""Murphy Brown" was a powerful intelligent female character who had great clothes, however, she did not look like a waif and her clothes were not skimpy. "Roseanne" was an over-weight working wife and mother who dealt with family problems that had never before been portrayed on a television sitcom. And "Ellen" came out of the closet on one episode to tell the world that she was a lesbian (Timson 1995). This would certainly have not been witnessed on a sitcom television program twenty years ago."

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