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‘Dress and the female professional: A case study of working woman’ (2016)
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Rippin, A., Shortt, H., & Warren, S. (2016). ‘Dress and the female professional: A case study of working woman’. In S. Mavin, V. Stead, J. Williams, & C. Elliot (Eds.), Volume V: Gender, Media and Organization: Challenging Mis(s)Representations of Women Leaders and Managers in the ILA Women and Leadership Book Series (95-110). USA: Information Age Publishing

A visual semiotic approach to the analysis of Working Woman magazine, a mid-1980s UK publication aimed at professional women. We argue that many of today's women leaders and managers were socialised into their understandings of what it means to be a... Read More about ‘Dress and the female professional: A case study of working woman’.