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Globalizing ideal beauty : how female copywriters of the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency redefined beauty for the twentieth century

Title
Globalizing ideal beauty : how female copywriters of the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency redefined beauty for the twentieth century / Denise H. Sutton.
Author
Sutton, Denise H.
Publication
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Description
xii, 210 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Subject
  • J. Walter Thompson Company. Women's Editorial Department
  • Women in the advertising industry > United States > History
  • Women in advertising > United States > History
  • Beauty, Personal > United States > History
  • Advertising agencies > United States > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
From suffrage to soap : Helen Lansdowne Resor and the women's editorial department -- "Good looks supremacy" : advertising an American ideal beauty -- Selling prestige and whiteness : Pond's cold cream and Pond's vanishing cream case study -- Selling sex and science : Woodbury's facial soap case study -- J. Walter Thompson's international expansion and the ideology of civilization -- J. Walter Thompson's international advertisements : the universal appeal to beauty.
Call Number
JBD 09-821
ISBN
  • 9780230611740
  • 0230611745
LCCN
2009004025
OCLC
YBP 2009004025
Author
Sutton, Denise H.
Title
Globalizing ideal beauty : how female copywriters of the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency redefined beauty for the twentieth century / Denise H. Sutton.
Imprint
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JBD 09-821
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