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A History of Popular Women's Magazines in the United States, 1792-1995 » Read Now
by Mary Ellen Zuckerman. 278 pgs.

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Throughout their history, women's mass circulation journals have played a major role in the lives of millions of American women. Yet the women's magazines of the early 20th century were quite different from those perused by women today. This book looks at changes that occurred in these journals and...
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Throughout their history, women's mass circulation journals have played a major role in the lives of millions of American women. Yet the women's magazines of the early 20th century were quite different from those perused by women today. This book looks at changes that occurred in these journals and offers insight into these changes. Business forces formed a key shaping mechanism, tempered by individual editors, readers, advertisers, technology, and cultural and social forces.
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Women's Periodicals in the United States: Social and Political Issues » Read Now
by Kathleen L. Endres, Therese L. Lueck. 538 pgs.

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Women's periodicals have a long history of treating social, political, and economic issues. Through alphabetically arranged entries on individual publications, this reference traces the rich diversity of approaches that these periodicals have taken. Included are entries on more than 70 different...
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Women's periodicals have a long history of treating social, political, and economic issues. Through alphabetically arranged entries on individual publications, this reference traces the rich diversity of approaches that these periodicals have taken. Included are entries on more than 70 different periodicals published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some are radical, some are reactionary, but most fall somewhere in between. Each entry provides a critical narrative history of the periodical, circulation figures, related publication information, and a selected bibliography. The volume closes with a chronology and a bibliography.
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Women's Periodicals in the United States: Consumer Magazines » Read Now
by Kathleen L. Endres, Therese L. Lueck. 512 pgs.

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Consumer magazines aimed at women are as diverse as the market they serve. Some meet the interests of particular age groups; while others target particular racial, ethnic, and economic groups. Some have lasted more than a century, some started only during the last decade, and some have ceased...
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Consumer magazines aimed at women are as diverse as the market they serve. Some meet the interests of particular age groups; while others target particular racial, ethnic, and economic groups. Some have lasted more than a century, some started only during the last decade, and some have ceased publication after only a few issues. This reference book profiles seventy-five consumer magazines published in the United States and read primarily by women.
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Education for Ladies, 1830-1860: Ideas on Education in Magazines for Women » Read Now
by Eleanor Wolf Thompson. 170 pgs.

Collections: History, Education, Entire Library
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A Voice of Their Own: The Woman Suffrage Press, 1840-1910 » Read Now
by Martha M. Solomon, Martha Watson. 240 pgs.

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The Female Spectator: Being Selections from Mrs. Eliza Heywood's Periodical (1744-1746) » Read Now
by Mary Priestley. 118 pgs.

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Femininity and Consumption: The Problem of the Late Nineteenth-Century Fashion Journal, in Journal of Design History » Read Now
by Christopher Breward. 19 pgs.

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Magazines for the Millions: Gender and Commerce in the Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post, 1880-1910 » Read Now
by Helen Damon-Moore. 223 pgs.

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The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture, 1880s to 1910s (Chap. 4 "Reframing the Bicycle: Magazines and Scorching Women" and Chap. 5 "Rewriting Mrs. Consumer: Class, Gender, and Consumption") » Read Now
by Ellen Gruber Garvey. 230 pgs.

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How did advertising come to seem natural and ordinary to magazine readers by the end of the nineteenth century? The Adman in the Parlor explores readers' interactions with advertising during a period when not only consumption but advertising itself became established as a pleasure. Garvey argues...
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How did advertising come to seem natural and ordinary to magazine readers by the end of the nineteenth century? The Adman in the Parlor explores readers' interactions with advertising during a period when not only consumption but advertising itself became established as a pleasure. Garvey argues that readers' participation in advertising, rather than top-down dictation by advertisers, made advertizing a central part of American culture. Garvey's analysis interweaves such texts and artifacts as advertising trade journals, magazines addressed to elite, middle class, and poorer readerships, scrapbooks, medical articles, paper dolls, chromolithographed trade cards, and contest rules. She tracks new forms of fictional realism that contained brand name references, courtship stories, and other fictional forms. As magazines became dependant on advertising rather than sales for their revenues, women's magazines led the way in making consumers of readers through the interplay of fiction, editorials, and advertising. General magazines, too, saw little conflict between these different interests. Instead, advertising and fiction came to act on one another in complex, unexpected ways. Magazine stories illustrated the multiple desires and social meanings embodied in the purchase of a product. Garvey takes the bicycle as a case study, and tracks how magazines mediated among competing medical, commercial, and feminist discourses to produce an alluring and unthreatening model of women bicycling in their stories. Advertising formed the national vocabulary. At once invisible, familiar, and intrusive, advertising both shaped fiction of the period and was shaped by it. The Adman in the Parlor unearths the lively conversations among writers and advertisers about the new prevalence of advertising for mass-produced, nationally distributed products.
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Women, Language, and the Argument for Education Reform in Antebellum Ladies' Magazines, in Women and Language » Read Now
by John C. Baker. 4 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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The Influence of Fashion Magazines on the Body Image Satisfaction of College Women: An Exploratory Analysis, in Adolescence » Read Now
by Sherry L. Turner, Heather Hamilton, Meija Jacobs, Laurie M. Angood, Deanne Hovde Dwyer. 12 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library
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Fashion Spreads: Word and Image in Fashion Photography since 1980 (Includes discussion of women's magazines in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Paul Jobling. 241 pgs.

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...Doubly tainted by its associations with consumerism and the 'frivolous' world of couture, fashion photography has long been ignored as a serious site for academic study...
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Invisible Mothers: A Content Analysis of Motherhood Ideologies and Myths in Magazines, in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research » Read Now
by Deirdre D. Johnston, Debra H. Swanson. 13 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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"It's Good to Blow Your Top," in Journal of Women's History » Read Now
by Eva Moskowitz. 33 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Dear Editor: Women and Their Magazines in Interwar Australia, in Journal of Australian Studies » Read Now
by Joanne Scott. Multiple pgs.

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