My Lists
Featured Lists
Spin sisters
how the women of the media sell unhappiness-- and liberalism-- to the women of America
By Blyth, Myrna
- ISBN
- 978-0-31231-287-9
- Publisher
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2004.
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2004
Having spent over 20 years as the editor of Ladies' Home Journal, Blyth knows women's media from the inside out. This book is her effort to pull back the curtain on behind-the-scenes manipulation in the industry. She argues that women's magazines have a liberal bias and that they create a negative view of the world that focuses too much on the stress of womanhood and on defining women as victims. Blyth was herself a "media queen," but that does not keep her f...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
