Susan Douglas Biography

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Susan Douglas is the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan and senior editor at In These Times magazine. Her In These Times column, "Back Talk" focuses on gender issues, media criticism and national politics.

Background

Education

Douglas received her Bachelors of Arts from Elmira College and a Masters of Arts and Ph.D. from Brown. While at Elmira, Douglas was a Phi Beta Kappa member.

Career

She is co-author (with Meredith Michaels) of The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How it Has Undermined Women (2004). Her book, Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination (1999), which won the Hacker Prize in 2000 for the best popular book about technology and culture.

Works

• Douglas, Susan J., and Meredith Michaels. The Mommy Myth: the Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women. Reprint ed. New York: Free Pr., 2005.
  

• Douglas, Susan J. Listening in: Radio and American Imagination. 1st ed. Univ. of Minnesota Pr., 2004.
  

• Douglas, Susan J. Where the Girls are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media. Reprint ed. New York: Three Rivers Pr., 1995.
  

• Douglas, Susan J. Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922. Reprint ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Univ. Pr., 1989.
  

External links

• "In these times" - Susan J. Douglas bio.
  

See also

• In These Times
  

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