{"product_id":"9781487503772","title":"Winning Women's Hearts and Minds","description":"Author: Diana Cucuz\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781487503772\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 30 Nov 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 336 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinning Women's Hearts and Minds \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003efocuses on women, gender, and the politics of selling US consumer culture and domesticity during the early Cold War through \"polite propaganda.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the Cold War, Russian citizens had limited access to US life and culture. \u003ci\u003eAmerika,\u003c\/i\u003e a glossy Russian-language magazine similar to \u003ci\u003eLife,\u003c\/i\u003e provided a rare exception. Produced by the United States Information Agency (USIA), America's first peacetime propaganda organization, \u003ci\u003eAmerika\u003c\/i\u003e was used to influence Russians, and convince women in particular that an American-style consumer culture and conservative gender norms could better their lives. \u003ci\u003eWinning Women's Hearts and Minds\u003c\/i\u003e relies on USIA archives, issues of \u003ci\u003eAmerika\u003c\/i\u003e, and American women's magazines such as the \u003ci\u003eLadies' Home Journal\u003c\/i\u003e to show how, during the postwar period, USIA officials deployed idealized images of American women as happy, fulfilled, and feminine wives, mothers, and homemakers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis study analyses how \u003ci\u003eAmerika\u003c\/i\u003e was used to appeal to Russian women. Portrayed in the US media as \u0026amp;quot;babushkas,\u0026amp;quot; they were considered unfeminine, overworked, and deprived of consumer goods and services by a repressive regime. Diana Cucuz provides a gendered analysis of the USIA and of \u003ci\u003eAmerika\u003c\/i\u003e, whose propaganda campaign relied heavily on postwar conservative gender norms and images of domestic contentment to convey positive messages about the American way of life in the hopes of undermining that Soviet regime. \u003ci\u003eWinning Women's Hearts and Minds\u003c\/i\u003e sheds light on the significance of women, gender, and consumption to international politics during the Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919511830686,"sku":"ING-9781487503772","price":140.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781487503772.jpg?v=1782813320","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781487503772","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}