Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s: The Postwar and Contemporary Period

Laurel Forster; Joanne Hollows

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s

The Postwar and Contemporary Period

Laurel Forster and Joanne Hollows

In the series The Edinburgh History of Women's Periodical Culture in Britain

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474469999

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Foregrounds the diversity of periodicals, fiction and other printed matter targeted at women in the postwar period

Examines changes and continuities as women’s magazines have moved into digital formats
Highlights the important cultural and political contexts of women’s periodicals including the Women’s Liberation Movement and Socialism
Explores the significance of women as publishers, printers and editors

Women'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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s–2010s Laurel Forster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Publishing Industries and Practices
1. Culture Versus Commerce: The Publishing of Feminist Books Since the 1940s Gail Chester Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2. Spare Rib and the Print Culture of Women’s Liberation Lucy Delap and Zoe Strimpel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
3. The Impact of the Women-Only Publishing Phenomenon on Early Second-Wave Feminism, Literature and Culture Catherine Riley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
4. Producing a Lesbian Magazine at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Georgina Turner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
5. ‘Hey, here’s the new way’: Young Women’s Magazines in Times of the Web 3.0 Laura Favaro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
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 Lisa Stead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
7. ‘The Most Helpful Friends in the World’: Letters Pages, Expertise and Emotion in British Women’s Magazines, c. 1960–80 Tracey Loughran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
8. ‘Everything a Girl Could Ask For’? Fashioning Feminism in Just Seventeen Melanie Waters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
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 Stevie Marsden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
10. Arena Three Magazine and the Construction of the Middlebrow Lesbian Reader Amy Tooth Murphy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
11. Always in with the In-Crowd: Vogue and the Cultural Politics of Gender, Race, Class and Taste Estella Tincknell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
12. ‘Leaps and Bounds’: Feminist Interventions in Scottish Literary Magazine Culture Eleanor Bell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
13. Promoting Involvement in Performance: Performing Arts Journals and Women Writers, 1945–69 Charlotte Purkis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Part IV: Feminisms and Activisms
14. ‘It’s Capitalism, not me sweetheart’: Women’s Activist Magazines on the Left Victoria Bazin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
15. Women’s Voice, the Rise and Fall of a Socialist-Feminist Newspaper in Britain 1972–82 Sue Bruley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
16. Spare Rib, Ms. and Reproductive Rights: A Comparative Analysis of Approaches Claire Sedgwick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
17. Digital Feminist Cultures Kaitlynn Mendes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
18. ‘Alive, practical and different’: Harpies & Quines and Scottish Feminist Print in the 1990s Rachael Alexander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Part V: Negotiating Femininities
19. ‘Doing Food’ in Vogue Janet Floyd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
20. Frank – Frocks, Politics, Lipstick, Handbags, Human Rights, Babies, Gardening, Stilettos and Fridge Magnets Mary Irwin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	338
21. Writing about Mothering and Childcare in the British Women’s Liberation Movement, 1970–85 Sarah Crook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
22. Beyond Utility: Pushing the Frontiers in Women’s Monthlies: Modern Woman 1943–51 Fiona Hackney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	366
Appendix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	406
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
Plates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 432
Illustrations
- Other: 52 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474469999