Smoke signals : women, smoking and visual culture in Britain / Penny Tinkler.

  • Tinkler, Penny.
Date:
2006
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Description

Penny Tinkler charts women's changing relationship to tobacco from the 1880s to the 1980s during which smoking transformed from a male practice to one enjoyed by both sexes. Focusing on the feminisation of cigarette smoking, the author unravels the role of visual culture and the impact of social, economic and medical changes.

Publication/Creation

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006.

Physical description

xii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Edition

English ed.

Contents

Women, smoking and visual culture, 1880-1980 : an introduction -- Invisible women smokers, 1880-1919 -- The feminization of smoking, 1920-1950 -- Modern and emancipated women -- The sexual promise -- Respectable smoking : a class act -- Look at me smoking : revealing portraits? -- Mixed messages, 1950-1980.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-228) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    JFV.U.41
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781845202668
  • 184520266X
  • 9781845202675
  • 1845202678