Book Quotes

'AS Media Studies' - John Price, Joe Nicholas.
Rosalind Coward - Female Desire, 1984: "The perfect female body would be between 5'5" and 5'8", long-legged, tanned and vigorous looking

Hollows Joanne: Feminism, femininity and popular culture
"second-wave feminism is seen as a product of the past." pg1* "male character is presented as doing a favour for his wife by helping out in order to get in her good books, thereby confirming the nation that it is normal for women to be responsible for domestic labour." pg 23t above all without a spare inch of flesh. Brown, slim, lively and lovely...that's how we would all like to see ourselves on holiday."
pg.111

'Visual pleasure and narrative cinema' -Mulvey, Laura, 1975,- "The image of woman as (passive) raw material for the (active) gaze.....The arguement returns again to the psychoanalytic background that woman as representation signifies castration".

Riley Glenda:The Female Frontier
"domestic service attracted a wide variety of women." pg 126