Title: Filling a Vacuum: Women’s Health InformationinGood Housekeeping’s Articles and Advertisements, 1920–1965
Abstract: Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1. Paul Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine (New York: Basic Books, 1982), 49, 124, 223, see chapters three and four; Sarah Stage, Female Complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the Business of Women's Medicine (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1979), 247–53. 2. Ibid., 129, 133. 3. Daniel Henderson, “Good Housekeeping's Story,”The Quill, October 1936, 8; World Almanac Book of Facts, 1951, 1957, 1961, 1966; Wade Nichols, “A Fine Romance with No Kisses,”The Writer, July 1964, 18. 4. Henderson, “Good Housekeeping's Story,” 9. 5. Herbert R. Mayes, The Magazine Maze: A Prejudiced Perspective (New York: Doubleday and Company, 1980), 285. 6. Janet Carlisle Bogdan, “Childbirth in America, 1650 to 1990,” in Women, Health, and Medicine in America: A Historical Handbook, ed. Rima D. Apple (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1990), 117; Herbert Mayes, The Magazine Maze (New York: Doubleday and Company, 1980), 206; Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, For Her Own Good (New York: Anchor Books, 1978), see chapter 7. 7. “Birth Control Pills: The Full Story,”Good Housekeeping, September 1962, 153–54; Mayes, The Magazine Maze, 285; Linda Gordon, Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America (New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976), 291, 320, 365. 8. Roland Marchand, Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), 196; Stephen Fox, The Mirror Makers (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984), 97, 100; Vincent Vinikas, Soft Soap, Hard Sell: American Hygiene in an Age of Advertisement (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1992), 95; Good Housekeeping, September 1923, 138. 9. Marchand, Advertising the American Dream, 14, 116; Vinikas, Soft Soap, Hard Sell, xi; Fox, The Mirror Makers, 89; Rachel Palmer and Sarah Greenberg, Facts and Frauds in Woman's Hygiene (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1936), 130, 148–50, 174; Starr, The Social Transformation, 129, 131; quoted in Starr, The Social Transformation, 131; Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink. 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs: Dangers in Everyday Foods, Drugs, and Cosmetics (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1937), 118, 190–91. 10. Richard Pollay, “The Subsiding Sizzle: A Descriptive History of Print Advertising, 1900–1980,”Journal of Marketing Summer (1985), 32. 11. Good Housekeeping, November 1928, 142; Good Housekeeping, July 1940, 118. 12. Good Housekeeping, February 1934, 127. 13. Good Housekeeping, June 1925, 198; Good Housekeeping, May 1932, 11. 14. Palmer and Greenberg, Facts and Frauds in Woman's Hygiene, 122–34. 15. Ibid., 134, 143; Good Housekeeping, February 1932, 164; Kallet and Schlink, 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, 185. 16. Palmer and Greenberg, Facts and Frauds in Woman's Hygiene, 14, 134, 137, 143, 152, 155; Kallet and Schlink, 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, 108–09. 17. Good Housekeeping, September, 1933, 107; Kallet and Schlink, 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, 180. 18. Palmer and Greenberg, Facts and Frauds in Woman's Hygiene, 12; Marchand, Advertising the American Dream, 344–46; Good Housekeeping, October 1932, 231. 19. Good Housekeeping, April 1928, 286; Good Housekeeping, July 1940, 144; Palmer and Greenberg, Facts and Frauds in Woman's Hygiene, 135. 20. Good Housekeeping, August 1965, 37. 21. Good Housekeeping, August 1944, 68; Good Housekeeping, December 1939, 150. 22. Palmer and Greenberg, Facts and Frauds in Woman's Hygiene, 56–62; Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, 1988 ed., s. v. “acetanilide,”“antipyrine,”“phenacetin,”“agranulocytosis,”“acetophenetidin”; Kallet and Schlink, 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, 73. 23. Palmer and Greenberg, Facts and Frauds in Woman's Hygiene, 56; Webster’s entry for “acetaminophen” gives 1958 as the term's earliest record of use in English. 24. Palmer and Greenberg, Facts and Frauds in Woman's Hygiene, 22–24, 56–57; Kallet and Schlink, 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, 274. 25. Palmer and Greenberg, Facts and Frauds in Woman's Hygiene, 20–28; “Tested and Not Approved,”Time, 2 June 1941, 50; “What Is False Advertising?,”Business Week, 23 December 1939, 24–26; Frank Luther Mott, “Good Housekeeping,”A History of American Magazines: Sketches of 21 Magazines, 1905–1930 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968), 140–41; “Magazine Puts Seal on Its Own Success,”Business Week, 19 March 1966, 192; Kallet and Schlink, 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, 189. 26. almer and Greenberg, Facts and Frauds in Woman's Hygiene, 10; Ibid., 9–10; Fox, The Mirror Makers, 168; Good Housekeeping, November 1928, 142; Good Housekeeping, May 1932, 11; Good Housekeeping, November 1932, 138; for more on how misleading ads continue to jeopardize women's health in the late twentieth century, see A. M. Vener and L. R. Krupka, “Over‐the‐Counter Drug Advertising in Gender Oriented Popular Magazines,”Journal of Drug Education 16.4 (1986): 367–81.27. 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Publication Date: 2005-08-18
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