Cultural literacy gives depth to multicultural education. Students not only celebrate diverse cultures, but recognize their society's pressures to fit the dominant cultural milieu--in terms of ethnicity, gender, family, and education. In the Vermont Equity Project, educators are helping children recognize and interpret cultural messages that shape…

Examines how postwar women's magazines introduced television to the American housewife. Reveals the way television was imbricated in the gendered division of labor and leisure at home by exploring how the magazines deliberated on the problems television posed for women's domestic chores and the efficient functioning of the household. (KEH)

Investigates the viewer perceptions of female and male television characters as a result of viewer sex and sex role orientation, based on the responses of 677 young adults to the Personal Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ). Viewer gender had an impact on the rating of female characters. (FMW)