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Author Davis, Simone Weil, 1957-

Title Living up to the ads : gender fictions of the 1920s / Simone Weil Davis
Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000

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 MELB  659.1042 Dav/Lut  AVAILABLE
Description xi, 248 pages ; 24 cm
Series New Americanists
New Americanists.
Contents Ch. 1. Doubled Truth: Uplift and the Bottom Line -- Ch. 2. Tbe Pep Paradigm: Masculinity, Influence, and Shame in Babbitt and The Man Nobody Knows -- Ch. 3. "Complex Little Femmes": Adwomen and the Female Consumer -- Ch. 4. "Lending an Air of Importance": Vehicles at Work -- Ch. 5. In the Tutu or out the Window: Zelda Fitzgerald and the Possibility of Escape
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Sex role in literature -- History -- 20th century.
Sex role in literature.
Sex role in advertising -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form History.
LC no. 99037024
ISBN 0822324113 cloth alkaline paper
0822324466 paperback alkaline paper