"This is my first approach to the theme of 'women and the media,' an attempt to elucidate or analyze continuities and ruptures in the way in which the symbolic order processes the relationship between femininity and modernity in normal times, and in times of criais," Mattelart explains in her Foreword. "Part One: Everyday Life" discusses the role of the media in shaping women's reality, including their habits as consumers; "Part Two: Modernity" deals with the feminine ideal and the myth of modernity; and "Part Three: Crisis," with an analysis of the decisive ideological role of women in the Chilean coup d'etat of 1973. "Notes and References." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 274)