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Women's Worlds

Ideology, Femininity and Women's Magazines

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. Ros Ballaster
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  2. Margaret Beetham
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  3. Elizabeth Frazer
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  4. Sandra Hebron
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Part of the book series: Women in Society (WOSO)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Ros Ballaster, Margaret Beetham, Elizabeth Frazer, Sandra Hebron
    Pages 1-7

  3. Theories of text and culture

    • Ros Ballaster, Margaret Beetham, Elizabeth Frazer, Sandra Hebron
    Pages 8-42

  4. Eighteenth-century women’s magazines

    • Ros Ballaster, Margaret Beetham, Elizabeth Frazer, Sandra Hebron
    Pages 43-74

  5. Nineteenth-century women’s magazines

    • Ros Ballaster, Margaret Beetham, Elizabeth Frazer, Sandra Hebron
    Pages 75-107

  6. 1914 to 1988: twentieth-century women’s magazines

    • Ros Ballaster, Margaret Beetham, Elizabeth Frazer, Sandra Hebron
    Pages 108-125

  7. Contemporary magazines, contemporary readers

    • Ros Ballaster, Margaret Beetham, Elizabeth Frazer, Sandra Hebron
    Pages 126-168

  8. Conclusion

    • Ros Ballaster, Margaret Beetham, Elizabeth Frazer, Sandra Hebron
    Pages 169-176

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 177-196
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About this book

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.

About the authors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Women's Worlds

  • Book Subtitle: Ideology, Femininity and Women's Magazines

  • Authors: Ros Ballaster, Margaret Beetham, Elizabeth Frazer, Sandra Hebron

  • Series Title: Women in Society

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21391-7

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1991

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 206

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: Feminism

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