Linda M. Scott's chapter from her book ¬Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism, Reading the Popular Image as well as Kathryn Kish's article Sklar Hull House in the 1890s: A Fellowship of Women Reformers covers the main theme of the New Woman as Club Woman and Social Reformer. We find in the two articles the way in which the New Women emerged in society. Scott's chapter examines how the publicity and social construction of the Gibson Girl played an influential role in the daily lives of the women around her, while Sklar's article explores how Hull House played a role in social integration and economic status of women in society. , Scott's article Reading the Popular Image argues that there are many ways and factors that can affect the meaning of an image of a new woman. One of the arguments Scott makes is the importance of context to fully understand the picture and not jump to conclusions. Scott uses the example of the editorial context of Life magazine to emphasize that the images, although on the surface may have a negative connotation, are instead positive and encouraging. Scott also notes that new technologies that emerged around 1890 allowed new "thoughts and meanings" through images. She ends her chapter by examining how the Gibson girl affected individual women as well as groups of women. To elaborate, Scott argues that as an interpreter of images, we must make a distinction between the "ideal and the real", to understand the true meaning. of an image. She explains that the Gibson Girl and the American Girl were two idealized visions of modern beauty and femininity that pushed women to try to be like them. These two girls have become markers of their decade, ...... middle of paper ......sea. I believe that both articles shed a positive light on the emergence of the New Woman in all areas of society; including on a social, economic and public level. Through Scott's chapter, readers can see how women were influenced by advertising and how they took these messages and incorporated them into their own daily lives. Through Sklar's article, readers can see how women, as early as 1890, could play a central role in the community and be able to choose their role in society. Works Cited Scott, Linda M. “Reading the Popular Image.” In Fresh Lipstick: Straightening Fashion and Feminism. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005. Sklar, Kathryn Kish. “Hull House in the 1890s: a community of women reformers.” In Women and Power in American History, 3rd edition, edited by Kathryn Kish Skylar and Thomas Dublin, 184-195. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2009.