Katherine Parkin
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., Temple University, 2001
Office: Howard Hall 335
E-mail: kparkin@monmouth.edu
Telephone: 732-571-4492
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I am writing a social and cultural history of women and cars in the twentieth century U.S.
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Winner of the 2006 Emily Toth Award for best book in feminist popular culture |
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| I was interviewed on the Bob Edwards Show on XM Public Radio regarding my book Food Is Love. Use the links below to listen to the interview. |
I was also interviewed on the Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane program on WHYY Radio regarding my book Food Is Love. |
Food is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
“Glittering Mockery”: Twentieth-Century Leap Year Marriage Proposals,” Journal of Family History 37(1) January 2012: 85-104.
"The Key to the Universe: Springsteen, Masculinity, and the Car," in Bruce Springsteen and the American Soul: Essays on the Songs and Influence of a Cultural Icon, edited by David Izzo. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2011.
“It’s Up to the Women: House Work and Identity in American Life,” Gender & History 22(2) August 2010: 451-457.
In December 2005, I was an invited presenter at a symposium in Vienna, Austria, where I presented my paper, "'The Power of Real, Unadulterated Sex': Ernest Dichter, Libido, and American Advertising."
“The Sex of Food and Ernest Dichter: The Illusion of Inevitability.” Advertising & Society Review 5(2) 2004.
“Campbell’s Soup and the Long Shelf Life of Traditional Gender Roles.” Kitchen Culture in America: Representations of Food, Gender, and Race. Ed. Sherrie A. Inness. University of Pennsylvania Press, January 2001.
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