Pop Cultures influence on Women of the 1950's and 60's. Author (Douglas)

Douglas Review Douglas says that pop culture influenced women of the baby-boom generation with images of increased feminism and sex-role stereotypes. There are many factors that increased feminism of the 1960's. First, Douglas explains how a woman's fate was predetermined. She explains that media told girls they were to sit back and watch their husbands and boyfriends change the world. While they were to be the kitsch of the 1960's. By this she means ignorant, …

…like "The Big Valley" and "Honey West". She makes no mention of the female stars in the Batman series either. She also fails to mention episodes of Bionic Woman when she is not going undercover as a predominately known female job. For everything that she describes her thesis is well supported. It is just the things she fails to mention that really leave me wandering if there was ever a positive media outlook on females.