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She's witty! She's charming! She perpetuates an unrealistic beauty standard! In episode 2, Adam and Erin ogle at the Gibson Girl. Will this be the week they finalize the name of the podcast? No.

Select Sources:

• The "New Woman" Revised: Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street by Ellen Wiley Todd
• Library of Congress collection of Gibson Girl images
• Very sexy army transmitter (nicknamed the Gibson Girl)
• Evelyn Nesbit and the Eternal Question