Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period

ISBN-13: 9781474412537 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 528 str.

Catherine Clay; Maria Dicenzo; Barbara Green

Opis

This collection of new essays recovers and explores a neglected archive of women's print media and dispels the myth of the interwar decades as a retreat to 'home and duty' for women. The volume demonstrates that women produced magazines and periodicals ranging in forms and appeal from highbrow to popular, private circulation to mass-market, and radical to reactionary. It shows that the 1920s and 1930s gave rise to a plurality of new challenges and opportunities for women as consumers, workers and citizens, as well as wives and mothers. Featuring interdisciplinary research by recognised specialists in the fields of literary and periodical studies as well as women's and cultural history, this volume recovers overlooked or marginalised media and archival sources, as well as reassessing well-known commercial titles. Designed as a 'go-to' resource both for readers new to the field and for specialists seeking the latest developments in this area of research, it opens up new directions and methodologies for modern periodical studies and cultural history.

Organised by sections devoted to the arts, modern style, domestic and service magazines, and feminist and organizationally-based media, this volume foregrounds connections between different genres of women's periodical publishing and makes a major contribution to revisionist scholarship on the interwar period. The detailed appendix provides a valuable resource to facilitate new research on interwar women's magazines.

Spis treści

General Introduction, Catherine Clay, Maria DiCenzo, Barbara Green and Fiona Hackney; Part I: Culture and the Modern Woman; Introduction, Catherine Clay; 1. “Tricks of Aspect and the Varied Gifts of Daylight”: Representations of Books and Reading in Interwar Women’s Periodicals, Claire Battershill; 2. “A Journal of the Period”: Modernism and Conservative Modernity in Eve: The Lady’s Pictorial (1919–1929), Vike Martina Plock; 3. Sketching Out America’s Jazz Age in British Vogue, Natalie Kalich; 4. Clemence Dane’s Literary Criticism for Good Housekeeping: Cultivating a “Small, Comical, Lovable, Eternal Public” of Book Lovers, Stella Deen; 5. “The Magazine Short Story and the Real Short Story”: Consuming Fiction in the Feminist Weekly Time and Tide, Catherine Clay; 6. Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s, Lise Shapiro Sanders; 7. “Dear Cinema Girls”: Girlhood, Picturegoing and the Interwar Film Magazine, Lisa Stead; Part II: Styling Modern Life; Introduction, Barbara Green; 8. Now and Forever?: Fashion Magazines and the Temporality of the Interwar Period, Elizabeth M. Sheehan; 9. ‘Eve Goes Synthetic’: Modernising Feminine Beauty, Renegotiating Masculinity in Britannia and Eve, Ilya Parkins; 10. Miss Modern: Youthful Feminine Modernity and the Nascent Teenager, 1930-40, Penny Tinkler; 11. ‘The Lady Interviewer and her methods’: Chatter, Celebrity, and Reading Communities, Rebecca Roach; 12. The Picturegoer: Cinema, Rotogravure, and the Reshaping of the Female Face, Gerry Beegan; Part III: Reimagining Homes, Housewives, and Domesticity; Introduction, Fiona Hackney; 13. Housekeeping, Citizenship and Nationhood in Good Housekeeping and Modern Home, Alice Wood; 14. Modern Housecraft? Women’s Pages in the National Daily Press, Adrian Bingham; 15. Labour Woman and the Housewife, Karen Hunt; 16. Friendship and Support, Conflict and Rivalry: Multiple Uses of the Correspondence Column in Childcare Magazines, 1919–1939, Kath Holden; 17. Documentary Feminism: Evelyn Sharp, the Women’s Pages and the Manchester Guardian, Barbara Green; 18. Y Gymraes (The Welshwoman): Ambivalent Domesticity in Women's Welsh-language Interwar Print Media, Lisa Sheppard; 19. Woman Appeal. A New Rhetoric of Consumption: Women’s Domestic Magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Fiona Hackney; PART IV: Feminist Media and Agendas for Change; Introduction: Maria DiCenzo; 20: ‘Many More Worlds to Conquer’: the Feminist Press Beyond Suffrage, Maria DiCenzo and Claire Eustance; 21. The Essay Series and Feminist Debate: Controversy and Conversation about Women and Work in Time and Tide, Laurel Forster; 22. Internationalism, Empire and Peace in the Women Teacher, 1920-1939, Joyce Goodman; 23. Providing and Taking the Opportunity: Women Civil Servants and Feminist Periodical Culture in Interwar Britain, Helen Glew; 24. Debating Feminism in the Socialist Press: Women and the New Leader, June Hannam; 25. Ireland and Sapphic Journalism between the Wars: A Case Study of Urania (1916-1940), Karen Steele; Part V: Women’s Organisations and Communities of Interest; Introduction, Maria DiCenzo; 26. Housewives and Citizens: Encouraging Active Citizenship in the Print Media of Housewives’ Associations during the Interwar Years, Caitríona Beaumont; 27. Woman's Outlook 1919-1939: An Educational Space for Co-operative Women, Natalie Bradbury; 28. A Periodical of Their Own: Feminist Writing in Religious Print Media, Jacqueline R. deVries; 29. Women’s Print Media, Fascism and the Far Right in Britain Between the Wars, Julie Gottlieb; 30: ‘The Sheep and the Goats’: Interwar Women Journalists, the Society of Women Journalists, and the Woman Journalist, Sarah Lonsdale.