This book integrates new material, using sources from the eighteenth and nineteenth century periodical press, research with contemporary readers, the authors' critical reading of past and present magazines, and a clear discussion of theoretical approaches from literary criticism. The development of the genre, and its part in the historical process of forging modern definitions of gender, class and race are analysed through critical readings and a discussion of readers' negotiations with the contradictory pleasures of the magazine, and its constricting ideal of femininity.
Recenzijos
'Written in a highly accessible style, this volume should be particularly useful for newcomers to the subject of women's magazines as research objects...[ it] offers a fresh and theoretically rigorous appraisal.' - Women: A Cultural Review
Daugiau informacijos
'Written in a highly accessible style, this volume should be particularly useful for newcomers to the subject of women's magazines as research objects...[it] offers a fresh and theoretically rigorous appraisal.' - Women: A Cultural Review
Theories of Text and Culture.- Critical Analysis of Women's Magazines.-
Social and Literary Theories.- Eighteenth-Century Women's Magazines.-
Nineteenth-Century Women's Magazines.- 1914 to 1989: Twentieth-Century
Women's Magazines.- Contemporary Magazines, Contemporary Readers.
ROS BALLASTER is Lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia.
MARGARET BEETHAM is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and History at Manchester Polytechnic.
ELIZABETH FRAZER is Fellow and Tutor in Politics at New College, Oxford.
SANDRA HEBRON is Media Officer at Cornerhouse, Manchester's Arts and Media Centre.
