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The Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) of the late 1960s, 1970s and
1980s emerged out of a particular set of economic and social
circumstances in which women were unequally treated in the home,
the workplace and in culture and wider society. As part of the WLM,
women collected together in disparate groups and contexts to
express their dissatisfaction with their role and position in
society, making their concerns apparent through
consciousness-raising and activism. This important time in women's
history is revisited in this collection, which looks afresh at the
diversity of the movement and the ways in which feminism of the
time might be reconsidered and historicised. The contributions here
cover a range of important issues, including feminist art, local
activism, class distinction, racial politics, perceptions of
motherhood, girls' education, feminist print cultures, the recovery
of feminist histories and feminist heritage, and they span personal
and political concerns in Britain, Canada and the United States.
Each contributor considers the impact of the WLM in a different
context, reflecting the variety of issues faced by women and
helping us to understand the problems of the second wave. This book
broadens our understanding of the impact and the implication of the
WLM, explores the dynamism of women's activism and radicalism, and
acknowledges the significance of this movement to ongoing
contemporary feminisms. The chapters in this book were originally
published as a special issue of Women's History Review.
Over the last decade there has been an intense and widespread
interest in the writing and publishing of cookery books; yet there
remains surprisingly little contextualized analysis of the recipe
as a generic form. This essay collection asserts that the recipe in
all its cultural and textual contexts - from the quintessential
embodiment of lifestyle choices to the reflection of artistic
aspiration - is a complex, distinct and important form of cultural
expression. In this volume, contributors address questions raised
by the recipe, its context, its cultural moment and mode of
expression. Examples are drawn from such diverse areas as:
nineteenth and twentieth-century private publications, official
government documents, campaigning literature, magazines, and
fictions as well as cookery writers themselves, cookbooks and TV
cookery. In subjecting the recipe to close critical analysis, The
Recipe Reader serves to move the study of this cultural form
forward. It will interest scholars of literature, popular culture,
social history and women's studies as well as food historians and
professional food writers. Written in an accessible style, this
collection of essays expands the range of writers under
consideration, and brings new perspectives, contexts and arguments
into the existing field of debate about cookery writing.
Foregrounds the diversity of periodicals, fiction and other printed
matter targeted at women in the postwar period Foregrounds the
diversity and the significance of print cultures for women in the
postwar period across periodicals, fiction and other printed matter
Examines changes and continuities as women's magazines have moved
into digital formats Highlights the important cultural and
political contexts of women's periodicals including the Women's
Liberation Movement and Socialism Explores the significance of
women as publishers, printers and editors Women's Periodicals and
Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s draws attention to the wide
range of postwar print cultures for women. The collection spans
domestic, cultural and feminist magazines and extends to ephemera,
novels and other printed matter as well as digital magazine
formats. The range of essays indicates both the history of
publishing for women and the diversity of readers and audiences
over the mid-late twentieth century and the early twenty-first
century in Britain. The collection reflects in detail the important
ways in magazines and printed matter contributed to, challenged, or
informed British women's culture. A range of approaches, including
interview, textual analysis and industry commentary are employed in
order to demonstrate the variety of ways in which the impact of
postwar print media may be understood.
The Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) of the late 1960s, 1970s and
1980s emerged out of a particular set of economic and social
circumstances in which women were unequally treated in the home,
the workplace and in culture and wider society. As part of the WLM,
women collected together in disparate groups and contexts to
express their dissatisfaction with their role and position in
society, making their concerns apparent through
consciousness-raising and activism. This important time in women's
history is revisited in this collection, which looks afresh at the
diversity of the movement and the ways in which feminism of the
time might be reconsidered and historicised. The contributions here
cover a range of important issues, including feminist art, local
activism, class distinction, racial politics, perceptions of
motherhood, girls' education, feminist print cultures, the recovery
of feminist histories and feminist heritage, and they span personal
and political concerns in Britain, Canada and the United States.
Each contributor considers the impact of the WLM in a different
context, reflecting the variety of issues faced by women and
helping us to understand the problems of the second wave. This book
broadens our understanding of the impact and the implication of the
WLM, explores the dynamism of women's activism and radicalism, and
acknowledges the significance of this movement to ongoing
contemporary feminisms. The chapters in this book were originally
published as a special issue of Women's History Review.
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.
Although the last decade has seen an intense and widespread
interest in the writing and publishing of cookery books,
surprisingly little contextualized analysis of the recipe as a
generic form has appeared. This essay collection asserts that the
recipe in all its cultural and textual contexts—from the
quintessential embodiment of lifestyle choices to the reflection of
artistic aspiration—is a complex, distinct, and important form of
cultural expression. Contributors address questions raised by the
recipe and its context, cultural moment, and mode of expression.
Examples are drawn from such diverse areas as nineteenth- and
twentieth-century private publications, official government
documents, campaign literature, magazines, and fiction, as well as
cookery writers themselves, cookbooks, and TV cookery. The
Recipe Reader brings new perspectives, contexts, and arguments into
the existing debate about cookery writing and will interest
scholars of literature, popular culture, social history, and
women’s studies, as well as food historians and professional food
writers.
This collection of essays highlights the variety of 1970s culture,
and shows how it responded to the transformations that were taking
place in that most elusive of decades. The 1970s was a period of
extraordinary change on the social, sexual and political fronts.
Moreover, the culture of the period was revolutionary in a number
of ways; it was sometimes florid, innovatory, risk-taking and
occasionally awkward and inconsistent. The essays collected here
reflect this diversity and analyse many cultural forms of the
1970s. The book includes articles on literature, politics, drama,
architecture, film, television, youth cultures, interior design,
journalism, and contercultural "happenings". Its coverage ranges
across phenomena as diverse as the Wombles and Woman's Own. The
volume offers an interdisciplinary account of a fascinating period
in British cultural history.This book makes an important
intervention in the field of 1970s history. It is edited and
introduced by Laurel Forster and Sue Harper, both experienced
writers, and the book comprises work by both established and
emerging scholars. Overall it makes an exciting interpretation of a
momentous and colourful period in recent culture.
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