Growing Up White and Female During the American Great Depression: Popular Communication, Media, and Memory

Shayla Thiel-Stern; Rebecca C. Hains; Sharon R. Mazzarella

doi:10.1080/07491409.2011.618876

Growing Up White and Female During the American Great Depression: Popular Communication, Media, and Memory

Shayla Thiel-Stern, Rebecca C. Hains, Sharon R. Mazzarella

Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication

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Abstract

Using interviews and oral history, this research illuminates older women's experiences with mass media and popular communication during their teen years. In this essay, we analyze interviews with 14 Caucasian American women who were born in or before 1933. We conclude that these women gravitated toward adult-focused media, that they recalled "experiences" associated with media rather than its content, and that many of their memories were inextricably linked to the world events of their day.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	161-182
Number of pages	22
Journal	Women's Studies in Communication
Volume	34
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2011.618876
State	Published - Nov 2011

Keywords

girlhood studies
girls studies
Great Depression
mass media
memory studies
oral history
World War II

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