Women and Popular Culture at the Modern Graphic History Library   Tags: 20th_century, american, art_history, arts, commercial_art, communications, creative, culture, feminism, gender, graphics, illustration, material_culture, sexuality, social_history, united_states, visual_culture, visual_studies  

This guide provides information about mid-century popular culture depictions of women in the MGHL collections as well as suggestions of other helpful resources.

Types of materials include: original artwork, magazines, tear sheets (a page removed from a magazine), advertisements, illustrated fiction, and comic books

Subjects include: femininity; domesticity; motherhood and parenting; relationships and sexuality; beauty, health, and hygiene; clothing and fashion; women's fiction; women as consumers; work and labor...just to name a few.

Al Parker illustration for Ladies' Home Journal, August 1946

From the Al Parker Collection