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Farrell, Amy Erdman. "Feminism in the Mass Media: Ms. Magazine, 1972-1989," University of Minnesota, January 1991. Advisor: Sara Evans (14, 18, 22)
In 1972 Ms. magazine began publication, offering feminist politics in the guise of a consumer product. Throughout its eighteen year history, the tensions that emerged among the writers and editors of the text, the readers, and the advertisers produced a mocplex and often contradictory magazine. Drawing from a textual analysis of the magazine, interviews with editors and writers, and an in-depth analysis of the unpublished and published letters written to Ms., this project illuminates the limitations and possibilities of constructing an oppositional politics within the commercial mass media.
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