The woman's magazine has been central to popular reading throughout the 20th century, but the history of the form has been almost completely neglected. How did it come to occupy this place? How did it develop its familiar elements - the agony aunt, the fashion plate, the repeated promise to transform the reader into a desirable woman? Did it empower or disempower readers in the process of defining themselves as gendered and sexual women? This study addresses a range of such questions as it charts the history of the British woman's magazine through the 19th century. It is simultaneously a...
The woman's magazine has been central to popular reading throughout the 20th century, but the history of the form has been almost completely neglected...
The woman's magazine has been central to popular reading throughout the 20th century, but the history of the form has been almost completely neglected. How did it come to occupy this place? How did it develop its familiar elements - the agony aunt, the fashion plate, the repeated promise to transform the reader into a desirable woman? Did it empower or disempower readers in the process of defining themselves as gendered and sexual women? This study addresses a range of such questions as it charts the history of the British woman's magazine through the 19th century. It is simultaneously a...
The woman's magazine has been central to popular reading throughout the 20th century, but the history of the form has been almost completely neglected...
Since the 1970s, the literary and cultural politics of the turn-of-the-century New Woman have received increasing academic attention. Whether she is seen as the emblem of sexual anarchy, an agent of mediation between mass market and modernist cultures, or as a symptom of the consolidation of nineteenth and early twentieth-century political liberation movements, the New Woman represents a site of cultural and socio-political contestation and acts as a marker of modernity. This book explores the diversity of meanings ascribed to the New Woman in the context of cultural debates conducted within...
Since the 1970s, the literary and cultural politics of the turn-of-the-century New Woman have received increasing academic attention. Whether she is s...
This anthology makes available to students and general readers the rich variety of Victorian magazines for women. The extracts range from fashion magazines to feminist journals, from serious works for Christian mothers to tales of romance and passion for 'sweethearts'. Focusing on the historical development of the British women's magazine, this extensively illustrated work gives access to texts which few readers ever see. The first main section describes and illustrates eight kinds of magazine for women. Though they have common features, the differences between the drawing room journal of the...
This anthology makes available to students and general readers the rich variety of Victorian magazines for women. The extracts range from fashion maga...
