Background
Susan Douglas was born in 1950 in the United States.
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Media critic Douglas deconstructs the ambiguous messages sent to American women via TV programs, popular music, advertising, and nightly news reporting over the last 40 years, and fathoms their influence on her own life and the lives of her contemporaries. Photos.
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Susan Douglas was born in 1950 in the United States.
She has lectured at colleges and universities around the country, and has appeared on The Today Show, The CBS Early Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Working Woman, CNBC's Equal Time, NPR's Fresh Air, Weekend Edition, The Diane Rehm Show, Talk of the Nation, and Michael Feldman’s Whad’ya Know.
Douglas is the 2010 Chair of the Board of The George Foster Peabody Awards, one of the most prestigious prizes in electronic media, which recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious service by radio and television networks, stations, producing organizations, cable television organizations, websites and individuals.
Douglas is best known for her 1994 book Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media, which was selected as one of the top ten books of the year by National Public Radio, Entertainment Weekly magazine and The McLaughlin Group.
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1995She is the one that dismisses all of American popular culture as a conscious or unconscious influence that serves to enslave women and place them completely in a passive role.
Douglas was a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors from 2004 to 2010, and she served as Chair from 2009 to 2010.
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Quotes from others about the person
Douglas is no mere ideological scold but an ambivalent champion of dreck.
She has a daughter, Ella, and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband, T.R. Durham.
