Magazine Movements

Women's Culture, Feminisms and Media Form

Bibliographic Data

ID6525940
AuthorsLaurel Forster (0000-0003-4740-577X, Faculty of Media, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages304
Publication date2015-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMagazine Movements (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing plc (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.5040/9781501300219
OpenAlexW920635683
Open LibraryOL28519367M
ISBN9781441177452, 9781501300219
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDkh1mBgAAQBAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received10

All women's magazines are not the same: content, outlook, and format combine to shape publications quite distinctively. While magazines in general have long been understood as a significant force in women's lives, many critiques have limited themselves to discussions of mainstream printed publications that engage with narrowly stereotypical representations of femininity. Looking at a range of women's magazines (Cooperative Correspondence Club and Housewife) and magazine programmes (Woman's Hour and Houseparty), Magazine Movements not only extends our definition of a magazine, but most importantly, unearths the connections between women's cultures, specific magazines and the implied reader. The author first outlines the existing field of magazine studies, and analyzes the methodologies employed in accessing and assessing the cultural competence of magazines. Each chapter then provides a case study of a different kind of magazine: different in media form or style of presentation or audience connection, or all three. Forster not only extends our definition of a magazine, but most importantly, unearths the connections between women's cultures, specific magazines and the implied reader. In this way, fresh insights are provided into the long-standing importance of the magazine to the variety of feminisms on offer in Britain, from the mid twentieth century to the present day

Advertising · Club · Femininity · Feminism · Housewife · Mainstream · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Women in mass media · Women's studies · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Medicine · Social conditions · Social life and customs · Social Science · Women · Women's periodicals, English

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