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1 online resource (192 pages) |
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Routledge Research in Gender and History |
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Routledge research in gender and history.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; Part I Thinking About Women's Magazines; 1 Fragmentation and Inclusivity: Methods for Working with Girls' and Women's Magazines; 2 Landscape for a Good Woman's Weekly: Finding Magazines in Post-war British History and Culture; Part II Ideals of Femininity and Negotiating Gender Norms; 3 Gender, Reproduction and the Fight for Free Love in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press; 4 Inter-war Czech Women's Magazines: Constructing Gender, Consumer Culture and Identity in Central Europe |
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5 Make Any Occasion a Special Event: Hospitality, Domesticity and Female Cordial Consumption in Magazine Advertising, 1950-19696 Righting Women in the 1960s: Gender, Power and Conservatism in the Pages of The New Guard; Part III Women, Magazines and Employment; 7 Getting a Living, Getting a Life: Leonora Eyles, Employment and Agony, 1925-1930; 8 'Corresponding with Men': Exploring the Significance of Constance Maynard's Magazine Writing, 1913-1920; 9 The Married Woman Worker in Chatelaine Magazine, 1948-1964 |
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10 Nanny Knows Best?: Tensions in Nanny Employment in Early and Mid-Twentieth-Century British Childcare MagazinesPart IV Young Women in Magazines; 11 The American Girl: Ideas of Nationalism and Sexuality as Promoted in the Ladies' Home Journal during the Early Twentieth Century; 12 A Taste of Honey: Get-Ahead Femininity in 1960s Britain; Part V Women's Bodies from Second Wave Feminism to the Twenty-First Century; 13 Popular Feminism and the Second Wave: Women's Liberation, Sexual Liberation and Cleo Magazine; 14 How Ladies' Home Journal Covered Second Wave Health, 1969-1975 |
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15 Beauty Trade and the Rise of American Black Hair MagazinesContributors; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Women have been important contributors to and readers of magazines since the development of the periodical press in the nineteenth century. By the mid-twentieth century, millions of women read the weeklies and monthlies that focused on supposedly "feminine concerns" of the home, family and appearance. In the decades that followed, feminist scholars criticized such publications as at best conservative and at worst regressive in their treatment of gender norms and ideals. However, this perspective obscures the heterogeneity of the magazine industry itself and women's experiences of it, both as readers and as journalists. This collection explores such diversity, highlighting the differing and at times contradictory images and understandings of women in a range of magazines and women's contributions to magazines in a number of contexts from late nineteenth century publications to twenty-first century titles in Britain, North America, continental Europe and Australia |
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Print version record |
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Women's periodicals -- History
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Women -- Periodicals -- History
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Women and literature -- History
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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Women -- Periodicals
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Women and literature
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Women's periodicals
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hawkins, Sue
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Phillips, Nicola
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Ritchie, Rachel
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| ISBN |
9781317584018 |
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1317584015 |
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9781315741727 |
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1315741725 |
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