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Inventing the Cosmo girl: class identity and girl-style American dreams

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Helen Gurley Brown published the book 'Sex and the Single Girl' in 1962 to hostile criticism from feminists and intellectuals, but millions of people bought the book in the first 2 weeks of publication. Brown's magazine Cosmopolitan was seen as a publication for working-class, less intellectual women. Brown wanted women to see themselves as the sexually liberated, fictional "Cosmo Girl."

History, Behavior, Portrayals, Criticism and interpretation, Businesswomen, Cosmopolitan (Periodical), Brown, Helen Gurley, Sex and the Single Girl (Book)

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'Showbusiness of a serious kind': A cultural politics of the arts prize

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The cultural politics of the arts prize is explored to make sense of the economic, aesthetic and political interests that are formed into the process and to assess its impact on cultural policy and practice. It is observed that the competing interests of stakeholders and discourses that organize the production and consumption of culture define the media event created by each art prize.

Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries, Arts, Arts & Humanities, Achievements and awards, Political aspects, Art and state, Arts policy

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Exorcizing the ghost: Donovan Bailey, Ben Johnson and the politics of Canadian identity

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The relationship between others such as Ben Johnson, Donovan Bailey, and the politics of racial and national identity in Canada are explored. The emerging media discourses surrounding these two 'Jamaican-born' Canadian sprinters is traced.

Influence, Athletes, Johnson, Ben

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