Margaret Beetham

Biographic Data

ID4193190
NAMEMargaret Beetham
GIVEN NAMESMargaret
FAMILY NAMEBeetham
SIGNATUREBEETHAM M
AFFILIATIONSManchester Metropolitan University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS19
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX3

  • Pushing the Boundaries

    Open AccessMargaret BeethamARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2021

  • Time

    Margaret BeethamARTICLEVictorian periodicals review2015Cited by: 5References: 2

    Responding to the question “What is the use of theory?” this article discusses the meaning of periodical time. Situating the rise of the periodical in the time-regulated structures of nineteenth-century capitalism, I use three case studies to consider some theoretical resources available to discuss the “now” or “new” as characteristic of periodical time. I examine three case studies: the Queen , which was dedicated to the “now” of conspicuous con…

  • Good Taste and Sweet Ordering

    Open AccessMargaret BeethamARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2008Cited by: 4References: 2

    In his book Distinction : A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste , the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu argues that in order to understand the workings of culture “in the restricted, normative sense” we must not only relate our discussion to the broad anthropological meanings of the concept, we must also relate it to “taste” in the physical sense. We must, he argues, bring “the elaborated taste for the most refined objects . . . back into relatio…

  • Periodicals and the new media

    Open AccessMargaret BeethamARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum2006Cited by: 7References: 6

  • New Woman Hybridities

    Margaret Beetham, Ann HeilmannEDITORBOOKNew Woman Hybridities2004

    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 …

  • A Magazine of Her Own

    Margaret BeethamBOOKA Magazine of Her Own?2003

    Like the corset, the women's magazines which emerged in the nineteenth century produced a `natural' idea of femininity: the domestic wife; the fashionable woman; the romancing and desirable girl. Their legacy, from agony aunts to fashion plates, are easily traced in their modern counterparts. But do these magazines and their promises empower or disempower their readers? A Magazine of Her Own? is a lively and revealing exploration of this immensel…

  • Speaking together; heteroglossia, translation and the (Im)possibility of the just society

    Open AccessMargaret BeethamARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum2002References: 3

  • Border crossings/translations

    Carol Nelson, Sakinna Dickinson et al.ARTICLECommunity Work & Family2000Cited by: 3

    This article offers two case studies of community development work undertaken in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom, focusing on a Somali Women's Health Day and the work of a community arts project with Asian women, Black Issues in Community Arts/Karishma. The analysis of the operation of racialised borders and the role of women's work in mediating these definitions of community is taken as a critical aspect of community development. Theoretical …

  • The reinvention of the english domestic woman

    Open AccessMargaret BeethamARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum1998References: 2

  • "Women in Print Culture"

    Linda H Peterson, Susan Albertine et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1997

  • Women’s Worlds

    Open AccessRos Ballaster, Margaret Beetham et al.BOOKWomen's Worlds1991

    This book integrates new material, using sources from the eighteenth and nineteenth century periodical press, research with contemporary readers, the authors' critical reading of past and present maga

  • Short notices

    Anne E Curry, Alba Curry et al.ARTICLESocial History1991

    Shulamith Shahar, Childhood in the Middle Ages (1990), xi + 342 (Routledge, London and New York, £35.00). François Billacois, The Duel: Its Rise and Fall in Early Modern France, edited and translated by Trista Selous (1990), 252 (Yale University Press, £22.50). Ann Kussmaul, A General View of the Rural Economy of England, 1538–1840 (1990), xiv + 216 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £30.00). Donna T. Andrew, Philanthropy and Police. London …

  • Natural but firm’

    Margaret BeethamARTICLEWomen a Cultural Review1991