Magazine of Her Own? - Domesticity and Desire in the Woman''s Magazine, 1800-1914

Informationen zum Autor Margaret Beetham teaches in the Department of English and History at the Manchester Metropolitan University, where she is Course Leader in the Women’s Studies MA programme. She is a co-author of Women’s Worlds: Ideology, Femininity and the Woman’s Magazine (1991). Zusammenfassung This exploration of the popular form of the women's magazine of the 19th century is simultaneously a chronological story, a set of detailed case studies, and an intervention into recent debates about gender and sexuality in popular reading. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I The Making of the Magazine, 1800–50; Chapter 2 The ‘Fair Sex’ and the Magazine: The Early Ladies’ Journals; Chapter 3 The Queen, the Beauty and the Woman Writer; Chapter 4 Family and Mothers’ Magazines: The 1830s and 1840s; Part II The Beetons: The Domestic English Woman and the Lady, 1850–80; Chapter 5 The Beetons and the Englishwoman–s Domestic Magazine, 1852–60; Chapter 6 The Female Body and the Domestic Woman, 1860–80; Chapter 7 Re-Making the Lady: the Queen; Part III New Woman, New Journalism, the 1880s and 1890s; Chapter 8 The New Woman and the New Journalism; Chapter 9 Revolting Daughters, Girton Girls and Advanced Women; Chapter 10 Advancing into Commodity Culture; Part IV The Reinvention of the Domestic English Woman: Into the Twentieth Century; Chapter 11 Woman at Home: The Middle-Class Domestic Magazine and the Agony Aunt; Chapter 12 ‘Forward but not Too Fast’: the Advanced Magazine?; Chapter 13 Woman-Talk As Commodity: The Penny Domestic Magazine;

Product details

• Authors: MARGARET BEETHAM, Beetham Margaret
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.04.1996
• EAN: 9780415141123
• ISBN: 978-0-415-14112-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls