Women's Worlds: Ideology, Feminity, and the Woman's Magazine

by Margaret Beetham, Elizabeth Frazer, Ros Ballaster, et al.

Why do women read magazines? This study explores the pleasure and dangers of the popular magazine for women since its first appearance in the late seventeenth century to the present day. Examining everything from changes in print technology to gender ideology, the authors argue that it is through its heterogeneity and its ability to contain contradiction that the woman's magazine has maintained its cultural influence.
From their inception,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333492366
• ISBN13: 9780333492369
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"