Consuming Women: Images of Americanization in the "American Century"

Once we cease to distract ourselves with lifeless arguments about isolationism, we shall be amazed to discover that there is already an immense American internationalism. American jazz, Hollywood movies, American slang, American machines and patented products, are in fact the only things that every...

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Published in:Diplomatic history 1999-07, Vol.23 (3), p.479-497
Main Author: ROSENBERG, EMILY S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Advertising campaigns
Americanization
Automobiles
Centuries
Cold wars
Consumption
Cultural conflicts
Diplomatic history
Essays
Gender
Gender roles
Graphics
International relations
Modernization
Political debate
Sex roles
Soaps
The American Century: A Roundtable (Part II)
Women
Women's role
Women's status
World wars
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Summary:Once we cease to distract ourselves with lifeless arguments about isolationism, we shall be amazed to discover that there is already an immense American internationalism. American jazz, Hollywood movies, American slang, American machines and patented products, are in fact the only things that every community in the world, from Zanzibar to Hamburg, recognizes in common. Blindly, unintentionally, accidentally and really in spite of ourselves, we are already a world power in all the trivial ways – in very human ways. (Henry R. Luce, "The American Century")
ISSN:0145-2096
1467-7709
DOI:10.1111/0145-2096.00178