Smoke Signals: Women, Smoking and Visual Culture

Author:   Dr Penny Tinkler
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Volume:   v. 9
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9781845202675


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 October 2006
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Dr Penny Tinkler
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Berg Publishers
Volume:   v. 9
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.387kg
ISBN:  

9781845202675


ISBN 10:   1845202678
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 October 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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'One of the great conundrums of modern cultural history is why there has been a dramatic decline in the number of men smoking but not of women. In what is the first in-depth, systematic study of the relationship between women, smoking and visual culture in Britain, Penny Tinkler tackles this conundrum head-on. Drawing on a rich range of photographs, advertisements, magazines and films, she persuasively exposes the power and persistence of the link between smoking, femininity, modernity, sexuality and glamour. This authoritative, wide-ranging and vividly readable book is a major contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the continuing appeal of the cigarette to British women from the nineteenth century to the present day.' Jeffrey Richards, Lancaster University 'This sophisticated, convincing analysis shows how films, ads, and magazines linked cigarettes to modern, emancipated womanhood, contributing to the immense 20th-century increase in female smokers. A clear, well-org


'One of the great conundrums of modern cultural history is why there has been a dramatic decline in the number of men smoking but not of women. In what is the first in-depth, systematic study of the relationship between women, smoking and visual culture in Britain, Penny Tinkler tackles this conundrum head-on. Drawing on a rich range of photographs, advertisements, magazines and films, she persuasively exposes the power and persistence of the link between smoking, femininity, modernity, sexuality and glamour. This authoritative, wide-ranging and vividly readable book is a major contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the continuing appeal of the cigarette to British women from the nineteenth century to the present day.' Jeffrey Richards, Lancaster University'This sophisticated, convincing analysis shows how films, ads, and magazines linked cigarettes to modern, emancipated womanhood, contributing to the immense 20th-century increase in female smokers. A clear, well-org


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Penny Tinkler is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester.

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