University of South Florida Scholar Commons Graduate Theses and Dissertations Graduate School 5-31-2010 Consumer Responses to Stereotypical vs. Non-Stereotypical Depictions of Women in Travel Advertising Jessica Eran McDonald University of South Florida Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd Part of the American Studies Commons, and the Mass Communication Commons Scholar Commons Citation McDonald, Jessica Eran, "Consumer Responses to Stereotypical vs. Non-Stereotypical Depictions of Women in Travel Advertising" (2010). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/3508 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Consumer Responses to Stereotypical Versus Non-stereotypical Depictions of Women in Travel Advertising by Jessica Eran McDonald A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts School of Mass Communications College of Arts and Sciences University of South Florida Major Professor: Scott Liu, Ph.D. Kelli Burns, Ph.D. Kim Golombisky, Ph.D. Date of Approval April 5, 2010 Keywords: advertising attitude, advertising response, gender, sex roles © Copyright 2010, Jessica Eran McDonald Acknowledgements I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of those who assisted in the successful completion of my Master‘s Thesis at the University of South Florida. First, I would like to thank all of my graduate professors in the USF School of Mass Communications for teaching me how to think outside of my corporate sphere.