TY  - BOOK
AU  - Forster,Laurel
AU  - Alexander,Rachael
AU  - Bazin,Victoria
AU  - Bell,Eleanor
AU  - Bruley,Sue
AU  - Chester,Gail
AU  - Crook,Sarah
AU  - Delap,Lucy
AU  - Favaro,Laura
AU  - Floyd,Janet
AU  - Forster,Laurel
AU  - Hackney,Fiona
AU  - Hollows,Joanne
AU  - Irwin,Mary
AU  - Loughran,Tracey
AU  - Marsden,Stevie
AU  - Mendes,Kaitlynn
AU  - Purkis,Charlotte
AU  - Riley,Catherine
AU  - Sedgwick,Claire
AU  - Stead,Lisa
AU  - Strimpel,Zoe
AU  - Tincknell,Estella
AU  - Tooth Murphy,Amy
AU  - Turner,Georgina
AU  - Waters,Melanie
TI  - Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s: The Postwar and Contemporary Period 
T2  - The Edinburgh History of Women's Periodical Culture in Britain : EHWPCB
SN  - 9781474469999
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s–2010s --; Part I: Publishing Industries and Practices --; 1. Culture Versus Commerce: The Publishing of Feminist Books Since the 1940s --; 2. Spare Rib and the Print Culture of Women’s Liberation --; 3. The Impact of the Women-Only Publishing Phenomenon on Early Second-Wave Feminism, Literature and Culture --; 4. Producing a Lesbian Magazine at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century --; 5. ‘Hey, here’s the new way’: Young Women’s Magazines in Times of the Web 3.0 --; Part II: Interacting with Readers --; Part 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 --; 7. ‘The Most Helpful Friends in the World’: Letters Pages, Expertise and Emotion in British Women’s Magazines, c. 1960–80 --; 8. ‘Everything a Girl Could Ask For’? Fashioning Feminism in Just Seventeen --; Part 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 --; 10. Arena Three Magazine and the Construction of the Middlebrow Lesbian Reader --; 11. Always in with the In-Crowd: Vogue and the Cultural Politics of Gender, Race, Class and Taste --; 12. ‘Leaps and Bounds’: Feminist Interventions in Scottish Literary Magazine Culture --; 13. Promoting Involvement in Performance: Performing Arts Journals and Women Writers, 1945–69 --; Part IV: Feminisms and Activisms --; 14. ‘It’s Capitalism, not me sweetheart’: Women’s Activist Magazines on the Left --; 15. Women’s Voice, the Rise and Fall of a Socialist-Feminist Newspaper in Britain 1972–82 --; 16. Spare Rib, Ms. and Reproductive Rights: A Comparative Analysis of Approaches --; 17. Digital Feminist Cultures --; 18. ‘Alive, practical and different’: Harpies & Quines and Scottish Feminist Print in the 1990s --; Part V: Negotiating Femininities --; 19. ‘Doing Food’ in Vogue --; 20. Frank – Frocks, Politics, Lipstick, Handbags, Human Rights, Babies, Gardening, Stilettos and Fridge Magnets --; 21. Writing about Mothering and Childcare in the British Women’s Liberation Movement, 1970–85 --; 22. Beyond Utility: Pushing the Frontiers in Women’s Monthlies: Modern Woman 1943–51 --; Appendix --; Notes on Contributors --; Index --; Plates; restricted access
N2  - Foregrounds the diversity of periodicals, fiction and other printed matter targeted at women in the postwar periodExamines 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 editorsWomen'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 essays examine both mainstream and independent publishing for women. They consider the history of publishing for women, the social contexts, and the ways in which the publications were used and understood by their readers over this long postwar period.The collection reflects in detail the important ways in which 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474469999
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474469999
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474469999/original
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