Sex, lies, and cigarettes : Canadian women, smoking, and visual culture, 1880-2000 /
Sex, lies, and cigarettes :: Canadian women, smoking, and visual culture, 1880-2000 /

Despite well documented health risks, young women are still drawn to the act of smoking and continue to smoke at an alarming rate. A century ago, women were vocal leaders of campaigns against tobacco across North America. In Sex, Lies, and Cigarettes, Sharon Anne Cook explores the history of the par...

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1. Verfasser: Cook, Sharon A. (Sharon Anne), 1947-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2012.
Schlagworte:
1800-1999
Mass media and culture > Canada > History.
Women > Tobacco use > Canada > History.
Women > Canada > Social conditions > 19th century.
Women > Canada > Social conditions > 20th century.
Smoking.
Tobacco use.
Nicotine addiction.
Smoking
Tobacco Use Disorder
Femmes > Tabagisme > Canada > Histoire.
Femmes > Canada > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Femmes > Canada > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Médias et culture > Canada > Histoire.
Tabagisme.
TRUE CRIME > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Tobacco use
Nicotine addiction
Mass media and culture
Women > Social conditions
Women > Tobacco use
Canada
Electronic books.
History
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Zusammenfassung:Despite well documented health risks, young women are still drawn to the act of smoking and continue to smoke at an alarming rate. A century ago, women were vocal leaders of campaigns against tobacco across North America. In Sex, Lies, and Cigarettes, Sharon Anne Cook explores the history of the paradoxical relationship between women and the cigarette, in a sensitive and lively description of the many different meanings that smoking has held for women. Focusing on the social context of smoking, Cook explores its allure for elite, middle-class, working, and marginalized women from the late-nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. She argues that smoking's attraction is rooted in women's changing identity formation and in strategies for empowerment, an idea enriched through extensive analysis of visual culture. It is in these images (yearbooks, posters, photographic collages, print advertisements, billboards, movies) but also in the act of smoking itself, that women harnessed the power of the visual. Smoking remains a powerful way for women to express themselves and is closely connected to the processes of modernity, sexualization, and commodification of desire. Textual documents (newspapers, magazine features, textbooks, teachers' guides) and oral testimony are also explored to show how dominant discourses of smoking, sexuality, and health have shaped women's experiences and how women have moulded these discourses themselves. The first comprehensive study of women and smoking in Canada, Sex, Lies, and Cigarettes creates a rich portrait of the cultural factors that have resulted in over a century of women smokers.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxvi, 418 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-408) and index.
ISBN:9780773587267
0773587268

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