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."
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