Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-6998-2 (ISBN)
Foregrounds the diversity and the significance of print cultures for women in the postwar period across periodicals, fiction and other printed matterExamines changes and continuities as women’s magazines have moved into digital formatsHighlights the important cultural and political contexts of women’s periodicals including the Women’s Liberation Movement and SocialismExplores 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.
Laurel Forster is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at University of Portsmouth. Her research interests are in women’s cultural history, women’s magazines and women’s modernist writing. She is author of Magazine Movements: Women’s Culture, Feminisms and Media Form (Bloomsbury 2015) and numerous other articles on women’s magazines and media cultures. She has co-edited a number of books including: Historicising the Women’s Liberation Movement in the Western World: 1960-1999 (Routledge 2018); British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010), The Recipe Reader: Narratives, Contexts, Traditions (Ashgate 3003). Joanne Hollows is a writer and independent researcher who previously had a long career teaching in British universities, most recently as Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University. She is the author of Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture (Manchester University Press 2000), Domestic Cultures (Open University Press 2008) and Media Studies: a Complete Introduction (John Murray 2016), and co-author of Food and Cultural Studies (Routledge 2004). She has co-edited numerous academic collections including Feminism, Domesticity and Popular Culture (Routledge 2009) and Feminism in Popular Culture (Berg 2006).
List of IllustrationsContributor biographies Introduction: Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, the Contemporary Period - Laurel Forster
Section I: Publishing Industries and Practices
1. Culture Versus Commerce: The Publishing of Feminist Books Since the 1940s - Gail Chester
2. Spare Rib and the Print Culture of Women’s Liberation: Collaboration, Experimentalism and Feminist Publishing Praxis - Lucy Delap and Zoe Strimpel
3. The Impact of the Women-Only Publishing Phenomenon on Early Second-Wave. Feminism, Literature and Culture - Catherine Riley
4. Producing a Lesbian Magazine at the turn of the Twenty-first Century - Georgina Turner
5. ‘Hey, here’s the new way’: Young Women’s Magazines in Times of the Web 3.0 - Laura Favaro
Section II: Interacting with Readers
6: ‘There is a War on. Does She Know?’: Transatlantic Female Stardom and Women’s Wartime Labour in British Film Fan Magazines - Lisa Stead
7. ‘The Most Helpful Friends in the World’: Letters Pages, Expertise, and Emotion in British Women’s Magazines, c. 1960–1980 - Tracey Loughran
8. ‘Everything a Girl Could Ask For’? Fashioning Feminism in Just Seventeen - Melanie Waters
Section III: Tastemaking: Arts and Culture
9. ‘When is a writer not a writer? When he’s a man’: Women’s Literary Award Culture in Britain 1940–2019 - Stevie Marsden
10. Arena Three Magazine and the Construction of the Middlebrow Lesbian Reader - Amy Tooth Murphy
11. Always in with In Crowd: Vogue and the Cultural Politics of Gender, Race, Class and Taste - Estella Tincknell
12. ‘Leaps and Bounds’: Feminist Interventions in Scottish Literary Magazine Culture - Eleanor Bell
13. Promoting Involvement in Performance: Performing Arts Journals and Women Writers, 1945–65 - Charlotte Purkis
Section IV: Feminisms and Activisms
14. ‘It’s Capitalism, not me sweetheart’: Women’s Activist Magazines on the Left - Victoria Bazin
15. Women’s Voice, the Rise and Fall of a Socialist-Feminist Newspaper in Britain 1972–82 - Sue Bruley
16. Spare Rib, Ms. and Reproductive Rights: a Comparative Analysis of Approaches - Claire Sedgwick
17. Digital Feminist Cultures - Kaitlynn Mendes
18. ‘Alive, practical and different’: Harpies & Quines and Scottish Feminist Print in the 1990s - Rachael Alexander
Section V: Negotiating Femininities
19. ‘Doing Food’ in Vogue - Janet Floyd
20. Frank - Frocks, Politics, Lipstick, Handbags, Human Rights, Babies, Gardening, Stilettos and Fridge Magnets - Mary Irwin
21. Writing about Mothering and Childcare in the British Women’s Liberation Movement, 1970–1985 - Sarah Crook
22. Beyond Utility: Pushing the Frontiers in Women’s Monthlies: Modern Woman 1943-1951 - Fiona Hackney
AppendixIndex
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.01.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Edinburgh History of Women's Periodical Culture in Britain |
| Zusatzinfo | 52 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 244 mm |
| Gewicht | 950 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-6998-1 / 1474469981 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-6998-2 / 9781474469982 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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