Most impressively, she takes down Oprah by showing how our national guru's message of self-improvement distracts women from fighting for real change: "The Oprah dynasty affirms–indeed demands–that women turn within" instead of storming the barricade. She skewers television shows, women's magazines, and ads for peddling false "fantasies of power" that make men anxious and keep women complacent.
, laid bare women's love-hate relationship with the media–and vice versa now, in (Times Books), Douglas, a communications prof at the University of Michigan, shows how glam representations of women calling the shots in the boardroom, the bedroom, and beyond lull us into thinking we're much more powerful than we really are. Douglas' groundbreaking 1995 book, Where the Girls Are Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism's Work is Done
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