Table of Contents
Introduction Rachel Ritchie, Sue Hawkins, Nicola Phillips and S. Jay Kleinberg Part I: Thinking About Women’s Magazines 1. Fragmentation and Inclusivity: Methods for Working with Girls’ and Women’s Magazines Penny Tinkler 2. Landscape for a Good Woman’s Weekly: Finding Magazines in Post-War British History and Culture Tracey Loughran Part II: Ideals of Femininity and Negotiating Gender Norms 3. Gender, Reproduction and the Fight for Free Love in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press Sarah Jones 4. Inter-War Czech Women's Magazines: Constructing Gender, Consumer Culture and Identity in Central Europe Karla Huebner 5. Make Any Occasion a Special Event: Hospitality, Domesticity and Female Cordial Consumption in Magazine Advertising, 1950-1969 Rochelle Pereira-Alvares 6. Righting Women in the 1960s: Gender, Power and Conservatism in the Pages of The New Guard Sinead McEneaney Part III: Women, Magazines and Employment 7. Getting a Living, Getting a Life: Leonora Eyles, Employment and Agony, 1925-1930 Fiona Hackney 8. "Corresponding with Men": Exploring the Significance of Constance Maynard’s Magazine Writing, 1913-1920 Gretchen Galbraith 9. The Married Woman Worker in Chatelaine Magazine, 1948-1964 Helen Glew 10. Nanny Knows Best?: Tensions in Nanny Employment in Early and Mid-Twentieth-Century British Childcare Magazines Katherine Holden Part IV: Young Women in Magazines 11. The American Girl: Ideas of Nationalism and Sexuality as Promoted in the Ladies’ Home Journal during the Early Twentieth Century Cheyanne Cortez 12. A Taste of Honey: Get-Ahead Femininity in 1960s Britain Fan Carter Part V: Women’s Bodies from Second Wave Feminism to the Twenty-First Century 13. Popular Feminism and the Second Wave: Women’s Liberation, Sexual Liberation and Cleo Magazine Megan Le Masurier 14. How Ladies’ Home Journal Covered Second Wave Health, 1969-1975 Amanda Hinnant 15. Beauty Trade and the Rise of American Black Hair Magazines Carina Spaulding