Reading Women's Magazines
Title | Reading Women's Magazines PDF eBook |
Author | Joke Hermes |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780745612706 |
Reading Women's Magazines
Title | Reading Women's Magazines PDF eBook |
Author | J. Hermes |
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Release | 1995 |
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Reading Women's Magazines
Title | Reading Women's Magazines PDF eBook |
Author | Joke Hermes |
Publisher | Polity |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1995-06-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780745612713 |
This book focuses on women's magazines, on how they are read and the role they play in their readers' lives.
Turning Pages
Title | Turning Pages PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Frederick |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2006-07-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0824829972 |
Analysing major interwar women's magazines - the literary journal 'Ladies' Review', the popular domestic periodical 'Housewife's Friend', and the politically radical magazine 'Women's Arts' - this book considers the central place of representations of women for women in the culture of interwar-era Japan.
Taking Liberties
Title | Taking Liberties PDF eBook |
Author | Amy B. Aronson |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2002-10-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0313076235 |
Unlike its British forebears, the early American magazine, or periodical miscellany, functioned in culture as a forum driven by manifold contributions and perpetuated by reader response. Arising in colonial Philadelphia, America's more democratic magazine sustained a range of conflicting ideas, norms, and beliefs—indeed, it promoted their very exchange. It invited and embraced competing voices, particularly during the first 75 years of the Republic. In this first-ever account of the early American magazine as a distinct form, Amy Beth Aronson reveals how such participatory dynamics and public visibility offered special advantages to women, especially to those with sufficient education, access, and financial means, for whom ladies magazines offered unusual opportunities for self-expression, collective discussion, and cultural response. Moreover, the genre opened and sustained dialogue among contributors, whose competing voices played off each other, provoking rebuttal and revision by subsequent contributors and noncontributing readers. This free play of discourse positioned women's words in a uniquely productive way, offering a kind of community of women readers who, together, wrote and revised magazine content and collectively negotiated and authorized new language for a new public's use.
Understanding Women's Magazines
Title | Understanding Women's Magazines PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Gough-Yates |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Periodicals |
ISBN | 9780415216395 |
Anna Gough-Yates considers the rapid shift in women's magazines towards titles aimed at newly-identified 'lifestyle' groups of women readers.
Ladies' Pages
Title | Ladies' Pages PDF eBook |
Author | Noliwe M. Rooks |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2004-06-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0813542529 |
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, mainstream magazines established ideal images of white female culture, while comparable African American periodicals were cast among the shadows. Noliwe M. Rooks’s Ladies’ Pages sheds light on the most influential African American women’s magazines––Ringwood’s Afro-American Journal of Fashion, Half-Century Magazine for the Colored Homemaker, Tan Confessions, Essence, and O, the Oprah Magazine––and their little-known success in shaping the lives of black women. Ladies’ Pages demonstrates how these rare and thought-provoking publications contributed to the development of African American culture and the ways in which they in turn reflect important historical changes in black communities. What African American women wore, bought, consumed, read, cooked, and did at home with their families were all fair game, and each of the magazines offered copious amounts of advice about what such choices could and did mean. At the same time, these periodicals helped African American women to find work and to develop a strong communications network. Rooks reveals in detail how these publications contributed to the concepts of black sexual identity, rape, migration, urbanization, fashion, domesticity, consumerism, and education. Her book is essential reading for everyone interested in the history and culture of African Americans.