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Bio
Parkin is Professor of History and the Jules Plangere Jr. Chair in American Social History at Monmouth University in New Jersey. She is the author of Food is Love: Food Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) and Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), each of which won the Emily Toth Award for best book in women’s studies and popular culture. Her teaching and research interests include the history of women and gender, sexuality, and advertising and consumerism. She has been interviewed by the Economist, the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR’s Bob Edwards on Sirius-XM, and WHYY’s Marty Moss-Coane in Philadelphia.