Women in Magazines

Women in Magazines
Title Women in Magazines PDF eBook
Author Rachel Ritchie
Publisher Routledge
Pages 277
Release 2016-02-19
Genre History
ISBN 1317584023

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Women have been important contributors to and readers of magazines since the development of the periodical press in the nineteenth century. By the mid-twentieth century, millions of women read the weeklies and monthlies that focused on supposedly "feminine concerns" of the home, family and appearance. In the decades that followed, feminist scholars criticized such publications as at best conservative and at worst regressive in their treatment of gender norms and ideals. However, this perspective obscures the heterogeneity of the magazine industry itself and women’s experiences of it, both as readers and as journalists. This collection explores such diversity, highlighting the differing and at times contradictory images and understandings of women in a range of magazines and women’s contributions to magazines in a number of contexts from late nineteenth century publications to twenty-first century titles in Britain, North America, continental Europe and Australia.

Reading Women's Magazines

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

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This book focuses on women's magazines, on how they are read and the role they play in their readers' lives.

Women's Magazines in Print and New Media

Women's Magazines in Print and New Media
Title Women's Magazines in Print and New Media PDF eBook
Author Noliwe Rooks
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 255
Release 2016-10-14
Genre Social Science
ISBN 113483246X

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This book contributes to our collective understanding of the significance of representations of women and gender in magazines in both their print and online forms. The essays are authored by scholars, writers and cultural producers in fields such as art, film and visual studies, literature, critical race studies, communications, broadcast and print journalism, history, and women and gender studies. Taken as a whole, the volume offers historical breadth and perspectives that are transnational and cross-racial on women in magazines and digital media in a variety of ways. It examines how women are represented, how women have created and produced magazines and how women make meaning of themselves and their world using magazines as key sources of information.

Decoding Women’s Magazines

Decoding Women’s Magazines
Title Decoding Women’s Magazines PDF eBook
Author Ellen McCracken
Publisher Springer
Pages 348
Release 1992-10-27
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1349223816

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A study of the more than fifty US and International glossy publications for women. This analysis focuses on the strategies by which the commercial structure shapes the cultural content, the magazines' repetitive attempts to secure a consensus about the feminine that is grounded in consumerism, and the contradictory semiotic structures at work within and between purchased ads, covert ads, and editorial features.

Images of Woman

Images of Woman
Title Images of Woman PDF eBook
Author Trevor Millum
Publisher
Pages 238
Release 1975
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN

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Turning Pages

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

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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.

Understanding Women's Magazines

Understanding Women's Magazines
Title Understanding Women's Magazines PDF eBook
Author Anna Gough-Yates
Publisher Routledge
Pages 210
Release 2003-08-29
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1134606230

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Understanding Women's Magazines investigates the changing landscape of women's magazines. Anna Gough-Yates focuses on the successes, failures and shifting fortunes of a number of magazines including Elle, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Frank, New Woman and Red and considers the dramatic developments that have taken place in women's magazine publishing in the last two decades. Understanding Women's Magazines examines the transformation in the production, advertising and marketing practices of women's magazines. Arguing that these changes were driven by political and economic shifts, commercial cultures and the need to get closer to the reader, the book shows how this has led to an increased focus on consumer lifestyles and attempts by publishers to identify and target a 'new woman'.