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The popular image of a mid-century ad woman is of a feisty girl beating men at their own game, a female Horatio Alger protagonist battling her way through the sexist workplace. But before the fictional rise of Peggy Olson or the real-life stories of Patricia Tierney and Jane Maas came Jean Wade Rindlaub: a female powerbroker who used her considerable success in the workplace to encourage other women--to stick to their kitchens.
The Angel in the Marketplace is the story of one of America's most accomplished advertising executives. It is also the story of how advertisers like Rindlaub sold a postwar American dream of capitalism and a Christian corporate order. Rindlaub was responsible for award-winning, mega sales-generating advertisements for all things domestic, including Oneida Silverware, Betty Crocker Cake Mix, Campbell's Soup, and Chiquita Bananas. Her success largely came from embracing, rather than subverting, the cultural expectations of women. She believed her responsibility as an advertiser was not to spring women from their trap, but to make that trap more comfortable.
Rindlaub wasn't just selling silverware and cakes, she was selling the virtues of free enterprise. By following the arc of Rindlaub's career from the 1920s through the 1960s, we witness how a range of cultural narratives--advertising chief among them--worked powerfully to shape women's emotional and economic behavior in support of the free market system. Alongside Rindlaub's story, Ellen Wayland-Smith provides a riveting history of how women were repeatedly sold the idea that their role as housewives was more powerful, and more patriotic, than any outside the home. And by buying into the image of morality through an unregulated market, many of these women helped fuel backlash against economic regulation and socialization efforts throughout the twentieth century.
The Angel in the Marketplace is a nuanced portrayal of a complex woman, one who both shaped and reflected the complicated cultural, political, and religious forces defining femininity in America at mid-century. This compelling account of one of advertising's most fervent believers is a tale of a Mad Woman we haven't been told.
Contents
Introduction: Odd Adman Out: Who Was Jean Wade Rindlaub?
Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Gospels
Chapter 2: The Angel in the Marketplace
Chapter 3: A Clean Rinse and a Fresh Start: The Magic of Soap
Chapter 4: Of Makeovers and Movie Stars
Chapter 5: Community Is Correct
Chapter 6: Back Home for Keeps
Chapter 7: Believe in Betty Crocker
Chapter 8: The "New Togetherness," or How Adwomen Learned to Man Up
Chapter 9: The Liking of Ike: Television, Anticommunism, and Magical Thinking
Chapter 10: The Power of Positive Thinking
Chapter 11: Chiquita Banana and the Politics of Kitsch
Chapter 12: A Second Look at the Second Sex
Epilogue: The Service Ideal, Revisited
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
