Description:
In 2008, during the show’s second season, the television series Mad Men aired an episode in which the men of the Sterling Cooper agency planned a 1962 foundation garment ad campaign based on the premise that every American woman wanted to be one of two women: Jackie Kennedy or Marilyn Monroe. (The men also concluded that every American man wanted a woman who was both—slender, sophisticated, brunette Jackie in the daytime and voluptuous, “fun,” blonde Marilyn at night.) Two years later, in 2010, author Pamela Keogh published her successful book Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Timeless Lessons on Love, Power, and Style. As the first word of Keogh’s subtitle suggests, these female archetypes of the early 1960s remain so “timeless” that they continue to resonate in the twenty-first century—now more than sixty years after Monroe’s death and Kennedy’s time in the White House. Jellison will discuss the staying power of these two contrasting images of American womanhood and what they tell us about the gender, race, class, and sexuality standards of the early 1960s
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Location:
Online via Zoom, link will be sent via email prior to the class
Registration Cutoff Date:
Dates & Times:
1/14/2025 10:00AM - 12:00PM
