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Publication details [#32845]

Johnston, Deirdre D. and Debra H. Swanson. 2003. Undermining Mothers: A Content Analysis of the Representation of Mothers in Magazines. Mass Communication & Society 6 (3) : 243–265.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contradicting | gender | mass media | power | representational structure

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

1520-5436

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study provides a content analysis of the contradictory representation of mothers -as house-wifes versus employed mothers -in contemporary women's magazines.