Gal’s Guide is building the first independent women’s history library. Each month we push to expand our collection to include a diverse look at women from different backgrounds, occupations, and regions. This month we want to expand our coverage of women in advertising.
Here are the top 20 books/DVDs we would love to add to the library!
A Big Life in Advertising by Mary Wells Lawrence
DEADLY PERSUASION: Why Women And Girls Must Fight The Addictive Power Of Advertising by Jean Kilbourne
Mad Women: A Herstory of Advertising by Christina Knight
Consuming Angels: Advertising and Victorian Women by Lori Anne Loeb
Provocateur: Images of Women and Minorities in Advertising by Anthony J. Cortese
Pioneering African-American Women in the Advertising Business: Biographies of MAD Black WOMEN (Routledge Studies in the History of Marketing) by Judy Foster Davis
Advertising, Sex, and Post-Socialism: Women, Media, and Femininity in the Balkans by Elza Ibroscheva
Sex in Public: Women, Outdoor Advertising and Public Policy by Lauren Rosewarne
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Image of Women
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising’s Image of Women
Designing Women (Film and Culture Series) by Lucy Fischer
Designing Women: Women Working in Advertising and Publicity from the 1920s to the 1960s by Ruth Artmonsky
Putting On Appearances: Gender and Advertising (Women In The Political Economy) by Diane Barthel
Stereotyping and Sexism in Advertising: An emphasis on the portrayal of women in Egypt by Christine Samy
Women, Advertising and Representation: Beyond Familiar Paradigms by Sue Abel
Australian Women in Advertising in the Twentieth Century by J. Dickenson
Pressure Makes Diamonds: Becoming the Woman I Pretended to Be by Valerie Graves
Food Is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America by Katherine J. Parkin
Do you have these books or DVD’s?
Would you like Amazon to send them to us?
Mail book donations to:
Gal’s Guide
c/o Nickel Plate Arts
107 S. 8th Street
Noblesville, IN 46060
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