Women's Worlds - Ideology, Femininity and Women's Magazines

This book integrates new material, using sources from the eighteenth and nineteenth century periodical press, research with contemporary readers, the authors'' critical reading of past and present magazines, and a clear discussion of theoretical approaches from literary criticism. The development of the genre, and its part in the historical process of forging modern definitions of gender, class and race are analysed through critical readings and a discussion of readers'' negotiations with the contradictory pleasures of the magazine, and its constricting ideal of femininity.>

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• Authors: Ro Ballaster, Ros Ballaster, Ros Etc. Beetham Ballaster, Rosalind Ballaster, BALLASTER ROS ETC BEETHAM MARGA, Margare Beetham, MARGARET BEETHAM, Elizabe Frazer, Elizabeth Frazer, Sandra Hebron
• Assisted by: Ros Ballaster (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.08.1991
• EAN: 9780333492369
• ISBN: 978-0-333-49236-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Women in Society; Women in Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; B, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection