The practical true woman: Reconciling women and work in popular mail‐order magazines, 1900–1920

Triece, Mary E.

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“…iVillage site visitors likely interpret the site's advice in a variety of ways, some of which resist dominant prescriptions for gender. However, media's narrow presentation of perspectives on social practices can make alternative visions more difficult for media consumers to consider (Hall, 1982;Triece, 1999). If Web sites are considered in terms of the ways they participate with other media in constructing perspectives on everyday life, iVillage's gender discourse on work reasserts a limited range of views that prevail in other mainstream media representations of gender (Cassidy, 2001;Dow, 1996;Vavrus, 2002).…”

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“…However, the range of reader interpretation is not infinite and is likely confined when media producers and audiences exist in similar economic and ideological contexts, which influence both encoding and decoding of media messages (van Zoonen, 1994). The openness of media texts and the range of reader practices cannot always compensate for oppressive material conditions likely to influence reader interpretation and activity (Triece, 1999). Thus, I was interested not only in which themes emerged from expert advice on work-family issues, but also to what extent those themes coincided with dominant discourses established by materialist feminist researchers examining more traditional mainstream media texts.…”

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“…Similarly, Triece's (1999) analysis of mail-order magazines popular during 1900 to 1920 found that the magazines constructed a narrative of the "practical true woman" as a means to reconcile contradictions between prevailing gender norms and the daily life experiences of working-class women. Working-class readers were told to draw heavily on their essential feminine qualities to provide domestic comfort for their families, regardless of any inadequacies of time and income.…”

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Women's Work on the World Wide Web: How a New Medium Represents an Old Problem

Worthington¹

2005

Popular Communication

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This article examines how iVillage.com, one of the most popular World Wide Web portals for women, advises them on how to integrate the demands of wage and domestic labor. Specifically, the article focuses on the implications such advice has for gender relations within the family and for feminist politics in U.S. society. Discursive strategies in advice generated by iVillage.com support the ideology of postfeminism, which promotes individual consumer-based solutions for a primarily middle-class audience over politics addressing the gendered division of labor, both within individual families and in social structures. Such commercial Web-site discourses are consistent with those constructed by other mainstream media.

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Women's Work on the World Wide Web: How a New Medium Represents an Old Problem

Worthington¹

2005

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“…Many feminist media studies have identified that, in diverse media texts, women have been depicted as sex objects and devoted homemakers within the bounds of "true womanhood-piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity" (e.g., Triece 1999;Wood 1994). Besides the representation of women, scholars have also discussed a mythical representation of the family system in media (e.g., Brunsdon 1983;Lopate 1976).…”

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Feminist Discourse and the Hegemonic Role of Mass Media

Kim¹

2008

Feminist Media Studies

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There has been a notable cultural trend in which feminist concerns are conveyed through many popular culture texts in South Korea since the early 1990s. Many different social groups and organizations have been engaged in the formation of feminist discourse in popular culture, among them the mainstream media. To broadly address the role of media in incorporating feminist discourse within the dominant ideology in specific socio-economic contexts, the research sought to identify the ways in which feminist discourse was generated and/or assimilated into the dominant ideology in newspaper content about the messages in the two television dramas Lovers (1996) andThe Woman Next Door (2003) and other socio-cultural phenomena surrounding the dramas. Newspaper content became more favorable to the sexually liberated female characters and acknowledged changing gender roles as a current socio-cultural trend. However, it never questioned the nuclear family system itself-which occupies the hegemonic realm in patriarchal capitalist society.

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“…Many younger Korean women refuse to partake in the cultural discourse of a traditional wife, so immigrant women have been serving as a solution to maintain hierarchal and patriarchal Korean family values (Constable, 2003;Triece, 1999;Yoo, 2006). These immigrants, including Minh, navigate a number of cultural discourses that coalesce and contradict with one another.…”

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The Story of Minh: The Lifeworld of a Marriage-Labor Immigrant Mother

Kim-Bossard¹

2016

Pac Early Child Educ Res Assoc

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In this paper, I investigate how Minh, as an immigrant mother, accepts, resists, and transforms available Korean cultural discourses about mothering. With the goal of exploring and understanding the discourses about mothering that pertain to immigrant families in Korea, I examine how local, national, and international histories of race, gender, class, citizenship, nationality, and culture shape the discourses of mothering in Korea. Through this process, the paper addresses the intersection between the discourses about mothering and marriage-labor immigrant families in the Korean context.To examine disparities and contradictions that emerged from my multiple ethnographic interviews with Minh between 2013 and 2015, I use Bakhtin's idea of heteroglossia as an analytic tool. The paper concludes by discussing the need for establishing renewed perspectives on the role of "Koreanness," the complexities of marriage-labor immigrants' lifeworlds, and mothering as cultural, emotional, and affective labor.

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The practical true woman: Reconciling women and work in popular mail‐order magazines, 1900–1920

Cited by 11 publications

References 16 publications

Women's Work on the World Wide Web: How a New Medium Represents an Old Problem

Women's Work on the World Wide Web: How a New Medium Represents an Old Problem

Feminist Discourse and the Hegemonic Role of Mass Media

The Story of Minh: The Lifeworld of a Marriage-Labor Immigrant Mother

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