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Imagining Gender, Nation and Consumerism in Magazines of the 1920s.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Alexander, Rachael.
Contributor:
JSTOR (Online Service)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Ladies' home journal.
Canadian home journal.
Sex role in mass media--History--20th century.
Sex role in mass media.
American periodicals--History--20th century.
American periodicals.
History.
Canadian periodicals--History--20th century.
Canadian periodicals.
Women's periodicals--History--20th century.
Women's periodicals.
Consumption (Economics)--United States--History--20th century.
Consumption (Economics).
Consumption (Economics)--Canada--History--20th century.
Canada.
United States.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (260 pages)
polychrome
Place of Publication:
London : Anthem Press, 2022.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Cover
Front Matter
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Figures
Tables
Acknowledgments
Chapters Int-con
Introduction
1 Two Home Journals: A Comparative Approach
Women's Mass-Market Magazines of the 1920s
Popular Culture or Mass Culture?
Periodical Studies
Consumer Culture Theory
Literary Ways of Reading: Close, Surface, Distant
An Interdisciplinary Methodology
2 The Art of Femininity: Aspiration and Self-Improvement
The Flapper in Mass-Market Magazines
The Middlebrow
The Help and Harm of Magazines
Experience: Character and the Domestic Self
Reading Fiction
Reading Advertisements
Appearance: Beauty, Fashion and the Visual Self
Frugal Fashion
'Natural' Beauty
Conclusions
3 The Home and Domesticity: Readers, Consumers, Citizens
Nineteenth-Century Domesticity
Separate Spheres
The Dual Meaning of 'Domestic'
An Ideal Opportunity: The Christmas Issues of 1920
Beyond the Issue: Content Analysis and Contents Pages
4 Fashionable, Beautiful, Moral: Idealised Images of Femininity
The Face of the Magazine: Cover Images
Fashion
Fashion in the United States
Fashion in Canada
Make-up
Conclusion
End Matter
Appendix: Content Analysis of Advertising from the Ladies' Home Journal and Canadian Home Journal
Notes
4 Fashionable, Beautiful, Moral: Idealised Images of Femininity
References
Index
Notes:
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Other Format:
Print version: Alexander, Rachael Imagining Gender, Nation and Consumerism in Magazines of the 1920s
ISBN:
9781785273483
1785273485
Publisher Number:
40030786154
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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