Magazines published for women offer competing messages, focusing on marriage and homemaking as well as building careers and success. According to sociologists
A) These magazines primarily oppress women by keeping them in the home.
B) The magazines primarily brainwash women into wanting careers and independence.
C) Women's magazines may both allow readers to select which ideas to accept and which to resist, and to resolve conflicting messages in their own ways.
D) The magazines are irrelevant, as media such as magazines neither reflect nor affect culture.
Answer: C
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