Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-4682-9 (ISBN)
This collection of new essays recovers and explores a neglected archive of women’s print media and dispels the myth of the interwar decades as a retreat to ‘home and duty’ for women. The volume demonstrates that women produced magazines and periodicals ranging in forms and appeal from highbrow to popular, private circulation to mass-market, and radical to reactionary. It shows that the 1920s and 1930s gave rise to a plurality of new challenges and opportunities for women as consumers, workers and citizens, as well as wives and mothers. Featuring interdisciplinary research by recognised specialists in the fields of literary and periodical studies as well as women’s and cultural history, this volume recovers overlooked or marginalised media and archival sources, as well as reassessing well-known commercial titles. Designed as a ‘go-to’ resource both for readers new to the field and for specialists seeking the latest developments in this area of research, it opens up new directions and methodologies for modern periodical studies and cultural history.
Organised by sections devoted to the arts, modern style, domestic and service magazines, and feminist and organizationally-based media, this volume foregrounds connections between different genres of women’s periodical publishing and makes a major contribution to revisionist scholarship on the interwar period. The detailed appendix provides a valuable resource to facilitate new research on interwar women's magazines.
Key Features
Presents new essays on women’s print media in interwar Britain, revealing the diversity of genres addressed to women readers, from domestic magazines, pulps and women’s pages to highbrow reviews and feminist periodicalsFeatures innovative, interdisciplinary research by recognized specialists in the fields of literary and periodical studies, and women’s and cultural historyContributes to the recent expansion of scholarship on the interwar period by recovering overlooked or marginalized media and archival sources, as well as reassessing well-known commercial titlesDesigned as a ‘go to’ resource both for readers new to the field and for specialists seeking the latest developments in this area of research—opening up new directions and methodologies for modern periodicals studies and cultural history
Catherine Clay is Senior Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University. She is author of British Women Writers 1914–1945: Professional Work and Friendship (Ashgate, 2006) and has published articles and book chapters on interwar women’s writing and women’s journalism. Her new monograph, Time and Tide: the Feminist and Cultural Politics of a Modern Magazine, is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press. Maria DiCenzo is Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has published on the British suffrage press in journals such as Media History and Women’s History Review. She co-edited Feminism and the Periodical Press, 1900–1918 (Routledge, 2005) and authored Feminist Media History: Suffrage, Periodicals and the Public Sphere (Palgrave, 2011) with Lucy Delap and Leila Ryan. Her current research examines British and international feminist activism and periodicals in the interwar period. Barbara Green is Professor of English and Director of Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Feminist Periodicals and Daily Life: Women and Modernity in British Culture, Spectacular Confessions: Autobiography, Performative Activism, and the Sites of Suffrage, 1905-1938, and a co-editor of Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939. She was the co-editor of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies from 2015 through 2022. Fiona Hackney is Professor in Fashion and Textiles Theories at Wolverhampton University. Her forthcoming monograph Women’s Magazines and the Feminine Imagination: Opening up a New World for Women in Interwar Britain will be published by I.B.Tauris. She has published widely on women, design, and the decorative arts, and is Principal Investigator on a number of Arts and Humanities Research Council projects exploring the value of creative making and maker spaces as a means of community engagement.
General Introduction
Catherine Clay, Maria DiCenzo, Barbara Green and Fiona Hackney
Section One: Culture and the Modern Woman
Introduction
Catherine Clay
Chapter 1: "Tricks of Aspect and the Varied Gifts of Daylight": Representations of Books and Reading in Interwar Women’s Periodicals
Claire Battershill
Chapter 2: "A Journal of the Period": Modernism and Conservative Modernity in Eve: The Lady’s Pictorial (1919–1929)
Vike Martina Plock
Chapter 3: Sketching Out America’s Jazz Age in British Vogue
Natalie Kalich
Chapter 4: Clemence Dane’s Literary Criticism for Good Housekeeping: Cultivating a "Small, Comical, Lovable, Eternal Public" of Book Lovers
Stella Deen
Chapter 5: "The Magazine Short Story and the Real Short Story": Consuming Fiction in the Feminist Weekly Time and Tide
Catherine Clay
Chapter 6: Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s
Lise Shapiro Sanders
Chapter 7: "Dear Cinema Girls": Girlhood, Picturegoing and the Interwar Film Magazine
Lisa Stead
Section Two: Styling Modern Life
Introduction
Barbara Green
Chapter 8: Now and Forever?: Fashion Magazines and the Temporality of the Interwar Period
Elizabeth M. Sheehan
Chapter 9: ‘Eve Goes Synthetic’: Modernising Feminine Beauty, Renegotiating Masculinity in Britannia and Eve
Ilya Parkins
Chapter 10: Miss Modern: Youthful Feminine Modernity and the Nascent Teenager, 1930-40
Penny Tinkler
Chapter 11: ‘The Lady Interviewer and her methods’: Chatter, Celebrity, and Reading Communities
Rebecca Roach
Chapter 12: The Picturegoer: Cinema, Rotogravure, and the Reshaping of the Female Face
Gerry Beegan
Section Three: Reimagining Homes, Housewives, and Domesticity
Introduction
Fiona Hackney
Chapter 13: Housekeeping, Citizenship and Nationhood in Good Housekeeping and Modern Home
Alice Wood
Chapter 14: Modern Housecraft? Women’s Pages in the National Daily Press
Adrian Bingham
Chapter 15: Labour Woman and the Housewife
Karen Hunt
Chapter 16: Friendship and Support, Conflict and Rivalry: Multiple Uses of the Correspondence
Column in Childcare Magazines, 1919–1939
Kath Holden
Chapter 17: Documentary Feminism: Evelyn Sharp, the Women’s Pages and the Manchester Guardian
Barbara Green
Chapter 18: Y Gymraes (The Welshwoman): Ambivalent Domesticity in Women's Welsh-language Interwar Print Media
Lisa Sheppard
Chapter 19: Woman Appeal. A New Rhetoric of Consumption: Women’s Domestic Magazines in the 1920s and 1930s
Fiona Hackney
Section Four: Feminist Media and Agendas for Change
Introduction
Maria DiCenzo
Chapter 20: ‘Many More Worlds to Conquer’: the Feminist Press Beyond Suffrage
Maria DiCenzo and Claire Eustance
Chapter 21: The Essay Series and Feminist Debate: Controversy and Conversation about Women and Work in Time and Tide
Laurel Forster
Chapter 22: Internationalism, Empire and Peace in the Women Teacher, 1920-1939
Joyce Goodman
Chapter 23: Providing and Taking the Opportunity: Women Civil Servants and Feminist Periodical Culture in Interwar Britain
Helen Glew
Chapter 24: Debating Feminism in the Socialist Press: Women and the New Leader
June Hannam
Chapter 25: Ireland and Sapphic Journalism between the Wars: A Case Study of Urania (1916-1940)
Karen Steele
Section Five: Women’s Organisations and Communities of Interest
Introduction
Maria DiCenzo
Chapter 26: Housewives and Citizens: Encouraging Active Citizenship in the Print Media of Housewives’ Associations during the Interwar Years
Caitríona Beaumont
Chapter 27: Woman's Outlook 1919-1939: An Educational Space for Co-operative Women
Natalie Bradbury
Chapter 28: A Periodical of Their Own: Feminist Writing in Religious Print Media
Jacqueline R. deVries
Chapter 29: Women’s Print Media, Fascism and the Far Right in Britain Between the Wars
Julie Gottlieb
Chapter 30: ‘The Sheep and the Goats’: Interwar Women Journalists, the Society of Women Journalists, and the Woman Journalist
Sarah Lonsdal
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.02.2025 |
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| Reihe/Serie | The Edinburgh History of Women's Periodical Culture in Britain |
| Zusatzinfo | 25 black and white illustrations, 14 colour illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 172 x 244 mm |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-4682-1 / 1399546821 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-4682-9 / 9781399546829 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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