Wimmin in the Mass Media

Abstract

Introduction to the 40th Anniversary Edition: Wimmin in the Mass Media and Centennial College, Looking Backwards • Mary Jo Deegan WIMMIN IN THE MASS MEDIA: Articles Collected at the Centennial Education Program, Fall 1980 Introduction: Wimmin and the Mass Media — Construction of the Self • Mary Jo Deegan and Terry Nygren Examining the Top Ten, or Why Those Songs Make the Charts • Jane Pemberton Images of Women in Rock Music: Analysis of B-52’s and Black Rose• Sheila M. Krueger Women in Sitcoms: “I Love Lucy”• Nancy Grant-Colson Horatio Alger is Alive and Well and Masquerading as a Feminist, or Where Are the Magazines for the Real Working Women? • Teresa Holder Freudian Tradition Versus Feminism in Science Fiction • Karen Keller Cover design by Becky Ross. I hope that reprinting this booklet will serve as a small material document of the educational community many of us enjoyed with this program. It is also a reminder of an era and political attempt to broaden the scope of traditional formats at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Centennial created a short, viable community that is remembered here