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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Modernity and the unstable Housewife -- Producing a magazine for television : Houseparty -- 'Improving the public image of the lesbian' in Arena three -- 'Our culture in a racist society' : Mukti -- A magazine of letters, CCC -- 'Make the women feel that they are important' " developing the radio magazine -- Magazines working for the feminist cause. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women's studies.
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Women's studies. |
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Feminism.
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Feminism. |
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Women in mass media.
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Women in mass media. |
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Gender studies: women. |
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Media studies. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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Electronic books.
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Forster, Laurel, 1962- Magazine movements 9781441172631 (DLC) 2014037449 (OCoLC)857981712 |
| ISBN |
9781441117816 (electronic book) |
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1441117814 (electronic book) |
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9781441106018 |
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1441106014 |
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9781501300219 (online) |
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1501300210 |
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9781441172631 |
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1441172637 |
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9781441177452 |
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1441177450 |
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97814411106018 (ePub) |
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