Women in Greek Print Ads in the 1960s

Between the poles of the Cold War era's sales promotion standards, print advertising thrived in Greece in the 1960s - in particular relating to female consumption. What are the similarities between American women as protagonists in the world of advertising and women as consumers in 1960's Greece? Are the women portrayed in print ads nothing but 'hybrids' of the American consumption model and the Greek consumerism boom of that era? What are the technical and aesthetic, but also social and cultural connotations of female advertising in Greece at that time? How do they reflect women's position in society? In a thorough historical case study with a wealth of illustrations and a concise analysis of advertising communications, Johannis Tsoumas investigates hitherto hardly known data and shows the importance of the role of Greek women - not only as consumers but primarily as protagonists in the formation of a then new consumption model which had been imported from the United States.