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Living up to the ads : gender fictions of the 1920s
In Living Up to the Ads Simone Weil Davis examines commodity culture's impact on popular notions of gender and identity during the 1920s. Arguing that the newly ascendant advertising industry introduced three new metaphors for personhood—the ad man, the female consumer, and the often female advertising model or spokesperson—Davis traces the emergence of the pervasive gendering of American consumerism.
Materials from advertising firms—including memos, manuals, meeting minutes, and newsletters—are considered alongside the fiction of Sinclair Lewis, Nella Larsen, Bruce Barton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Zelda Fitzgerald. Davis engages such books as Babbitt, Quicksand, and Save Me the Waltz in original and imaginative ways, asking each to participate in her discussion of commodity culture, gender, and identity. To illuminate the subjective, day-to-day experiences of 1920s consumerism in the United States, Davis juxtaposes print ads and industry manuals with works of fiction. Capturing the maverick voices of some of the decade's most influential advertisers and writers, Davis reveals the lines that were drawn between truths and lies, seduction and selling, white and black, and men and women.
Davis's methodology challenges disciplinary borders by employing historical, sociological, and literary practices to discuss the enduring links between commodity culture, gender, and identity construction. Living Up to the Ads will appeal to students and scholars of advertising, American studies, women's studies, cultural studies, and early-twentieth-century American history.
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Living Up to the Ads
In Living Up to the Ads Simone Weil Davis examines commodity culture’s impact on popular notions of gender and identity during the 1920s. Arguing that the newly ascendant advertising industry introduced three new metaphors for personhood—the ad man, the female consumer, and the often female advertising model or spokesperson—Davis traces the emergence of the pervasive gendering of American consumerism.Materials from advertising firms—including memos, manuals, meeting minutes, and newsletters—are considered alongside the fiction of Sinclair Lewis, Nella Larsen, Bruce Barton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Zelda Fitzgerald. Davis engages such books as Babbitt, Quicksand, and Save Me the Waltz in original and imaginative ways, asking each to participate in her discussion of commodity culture, gender, and identity. To illuminate the subjective, day-to-day experiences of 1920s consumerism in the United States, Davis juxtaposes print ads and industry manuals with works of fiction. Capturing the maverick voices of some of the decade’s most influential advertisers and writers, Davis reveals the lines that were drawn between truths and lies, seduction and selling, white and black, and men and women.Davis’s methodology challenges disciplinary borders by employing historical, sociological, and literary practices to discuss the enduring links between commodity culture, gender, and identity construction. Living Up to the Ads will appeal to students and scholars of advertising, American studies, women’s studies, cultural studies, and early-twentieth-century American history.
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Loose Lips Sink Ships
In a comparative analysis, Davis examines the limitation of liberal discourses of \"choice\" as represented in the increasingly popular form of cosmetic vaginal surgery known as labiaplasty. By detailing several striking aesthetic parallels in the motivations of African and American women to seek cosmetic surgeries on their genitals, she challenges \"oversimplified binaries that divide women into civilized and uncivilized.\"
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Living Up to the Ads: Gender Fictions of the 1920s
In Living Up to the Ads Simone Weil Davis examines commodity culture's impact on popular notions of gender and identity during the 1920s. Arguing that the newly ascendant advertising industry introduced three new metaphors for personhood-the ad man, the female consumer, and the often female advertising model or spokesperson-Davis traces the emergence of the pervasive gendering of American consumerism. Materials from advertising firms-including memos, manuals, meeting minutes, and newsletters-are considered alongside the fiction of Sinclair Lewis, Nella Larsen, Bruce Barton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Zelda Fitzgerald. Davis engages such books as Babbitt, Quicksand, and Save Me the Waltz in original and imaginative ways, asking each to participate in her discussion of commodity culture, gender, and identity. To illuminate the subjective, day-to-day experiences of 1920s consumerism in the United States, Davis juxtaposes print ads and industry manuals with works of fiction. Capturing the maverick voices of some of the decade's most influential advertisers and writers, Davis reveals the lines that were drawn between truths and lies, seduction and selling, white and black, and men and women. Davis's methodology challenges disciplinary borders by employing historical, sociological, and literary practices to discuss the enduring links between commodity culture, gender, and identity construction. Living Up to the Ads will appeal to students and scholars of advertising, American studies, women's studies, cultural studies, and early-twentieth-century American history.
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Ripping off some room for people to \breathe together\: peer-to-peer education in prison
The authors said let people start locating the two participants: As member of the Walls to Bridges Collective, a group of incarcerated and non-incarcerated people that meets regularly at the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ontario, particpants helps to coordinate the Walls to Bridges program. The Collective offers a reciprocal learning model and they seek to help usher into this world profound transformations of both educational and justice paradigms. Their work includes training and supporting faculty from around Canada who want to bring incarcerated and non-incarcerated students together to learn in community. While the \"I\" voice in this essay is the participants, (and I take full responsibility for the views I present), this piece emerges out of and introduces an ongoing conversation between the two participants, a peer-to-peer educator who has helped to found, facilitate, and grow a multifaceted, robust, entirely prisoner-run college program at the facility in a Midwestern state where he is incarcerated.
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Ripping Off Some Room for People to \Breathe Together\: Peer-to-Peer Education in Prison
The authors said let people start locating the two participants: As member of the Walls to Bridges Collective, a group of incarcerated and non-incarcerated people that meets regularly at the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ontario, participants helps to coordinate the Walls to Bridges program. The Collective offers a reciprocal learning model and they seek to help usher into this world profound transformations of both educational and justice paradigms. Their work includes training and supporting faculty from around Canada who want to bring incarcerated and non-incarcerated students together to learn in community. While the \"I\" voice in this essay is the participants, (and I take full responsibility for the views I present), this piece emerges out of and introduces an ongoing conversation between the two participants, a peer-to-peer educator who has helped to found, facilitate, and grow a multifaceted, robust, entirely prisoner-run college program at the facility in a Midwestern state where he is incarcerated.
Journal Article
Living Up to the Ads
In Living Up to the Ads Simone Weil Davis examines commodity culture's impact on popular notions of gender and identity during the 1920s. Arguing that the newly ascendant advertising industry introduced three new metaphors for personhood-the ad man, the female consumer, and the often female advertising model or spokesperson-Davis traces the emergence of the pervasive gendering of American consumerism. Materials from advertising firms-including memos, manuals, meeting minutes, and newsletters-are considered alongside the fiction of Sinclair Lewis, Nella Larsen, Bruce Barton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Zelda Fitzgerald. Davis engages such books as Babbitt, Quicksand, and Save Me the Waltz in original and imaginative ways, asking each to participate in her discussion of commodity culture, gender, and identity. To illuminate the subjective, day-to-day experiences of 1920s consumerism in the United States, Davis juxtaposes print ads and industry manuals with works of fiction. Capturing the maverick voices of some of the decade's most influential advertisers and writers, Davis reveals the lines that were drawn between truths and lies, seduction and selling, white and black, and men and women. Davis's methodology challenges disciplinary borders by employing historical, sociological, and literary practices to discuss the enduring links between commodity culture, gender, and identity construction. Living Up to the Ads will appeal to students and scholars of advertising, American studies, women's studies, cultural studies, and early-twentieth-century American history.
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Inside-Out
Prison bars are meant to keep people in; they also keep people out. In tandem with the other powerful social forces that keep people divided, especially those that cluster around race, class, and gender, the tall walls and razor wire fences of U.S. prisons and jails ensure that our internalized maps of what we consider home are skewed, pitted with lacunae. These blanks, blind spots, and alienations don’t just impoverish us; they make it possible for things as they are to continue—including this country’s unprecedentedly high rate of incarceration. With our sense of connection, community, place, and identity distorted,
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