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2 - The Gibson Girl (1900s)


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She's witty! She's charming! She perpetuates an unrealistic beauty standard! In episode 2, Adam and Erin ogle at the Gibson Girl. Will this be the week they finalize the name of the podcast? No.


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  • The "New Woman" Revised: Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street by Ellen Wiley Todd
  • Library of Congress collection of Gibson Girl images
  • Very sexy army transmitter (nicknamed the Gibson Girl)
  • Evelyn Nesbit and the Eternal Question
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