Women's periodicals and print culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s : the postwar and contemporary period / edited by Laurel Forster and Joanne Hollows.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forster, Laurel, Author.

Contributor:

Forster, Laurel, 1962- editor.

Hollows, Joanne, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh history of women's periodical culture in Britain.

Edinburgh history of women's periodical culture in Britain

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's periodicals, English--History--20th century.

Women's periodicals, English.

Women's periodicals, English--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 427 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474469999

147446999X

OCLC:

1306539420