"A burgeoning consumer culture needs one big thing - consumers." In the case of the American housewife, that consumer has been targeted and re-targeted while being severely under-represented or poorly represented in the world of advertising media and mass media cultural representations. Children of the late 1950's and early 1960's, while being over-exposed to Donna Reed and Harriet Nelson stereotypes of female image, rarely if ever were exposed to African and Latino women of the same or even close to represented images within the mass media culture.
It is only recently, (within the last quarter century) that women of color have been introduced into the imagery of the ma
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