Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period

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Title: Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939 : The Interwar Period

Contains: Frontmatter
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Acknowledgements
General Introduction: Re-Mediating Women and the Interwar Period
Part I. Culture and the Modern Woman
Culture and the Modern Woman: Introduction
1 ‘Tricks of Aspect and the Varied Gifts of Daylight’: Representations of Books and Reading in Interwar Women’s Periodicals
2 ‘A Journal of the Period’: Modernism and Conservative Modernity in EVE: THE LADY’S PICTORIAL (1919–29)
3 Sketching Out America’s Jazz Age in British VOGUE
4 Clemence Dane’s Literary Criticism for GOOD HOUSEKEEPING: Cultivating a ‘Small, Comical, Lovable, Eternal Public’ of Book Lovers
5 ‘The Magazine Short Story and the Real Short Story’: Consuming Fiction in the Feminist Weekly TIME AND TIDE
6 Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s
7 ‘Dear Cinema Girls’: Girlhood, Picture-going, and the Interwar Film Magazine
Part II. Styling Modern Life
Styling Modern Life: Introduction
8 Now and Forever? Fashion Magazines and the Temporality of the Interwar Period
9 ‘Eve Goes Synthetic’: Modernising Feminine Beauty, Renegotiating Masculinity in BRITANNIA AND EVE
10 MISS MODERN: Youthful Feminine Modernity and the Nascent Teenager, 1930–40
11 ‘The Lady Interviewer and her methods’: Chatter, Celebrity, and Reading Communities
12 The PICTUREGOER: Cinema, Rotogravure, and the Reshaping of the Female Face
Part III. Reimagining Homes, Housewives, and Domesticity
Reimagining Homes, Housewives, and Domesticity: Introduction
13 Housekeeping, Citizenship, and Nationhood in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING and MODERN HOME
14 Modern Housecraft? Women’s Pages in the National Daily Press
15 LABOUR WOMAN and the Housewife
16 Friendship and Support, Conflict and Rivalry: Multiple Uses of the Correspondence Column in Childcare Magazines, 1919–39
17 Documentary Feminism: Evelyn Sharp, the Women’s Pages, and the MANCHESTER GUARDIAN
18 Y GYMRAES (The Welshwoman): Ambivalent Domesticity in Women’s Welsh-language Interwar Print Media
19 Woman Appeal. A New Rhetoric of Consumption: Women’s Domestic Magazines in the 1920s and 1930s
Part IV. Feminist Media and Agendas for Change
Feminist Media and Agendas for Change: Introduction
20 ‘Many More Worlds To Conquer’: The Feminist Press Beyond Suffrage
21 The Essay Series and Feminist Debate: Controversy and Conversation about Women and Work In TIME AND TIDE
22 Internationalism, Empire, and Peace in the WOMAN TEACHER, 1920–39
23 Providing and Taking the OPPORTUNITY: Women Civil Servants and Feminist Periodical Culture in Interwar Britain
24 Debating Feminism in the Socialist Press: Women and the NEW LEADER
25 Ireland and Sapphic Journalism between the Wars: A Case Study of URANIA (1916–40)
Part V. Women’s Organisations and Communities of Interest
Women’s Organisations and Communities of Interest: Introduction
26 Housewives AND Citizens: Encouraging Active Citizenship in the Print Media of Housewives’ Associations during the Interwar Years
27 WOMAN’S OUTLOOK 1919–39: An Educational Space for Co-operative Women
28 A Periodical of Their Own: Feminist Writing in Religious Print Media
29 Women’s Print Media, Fascism, and the Far Right in Britain between the Wars
30 ‘The Sheep and the Goats’: Interwar Women Journalists, the Society of Women Journalists, and the WOMAN JOURNALIST
Appendix
Notes on Contributors
Index

Contributor: Clay, Catherine [VerfasserIn]; Battershill, Claire [MitwirkendeR]; Beaumont, Caitríona [MitwirkendeR]; Beegan, Gerry [MitwirkendeR]; Bingham, Adrian [MitwirkendeR]; Bradbury, Natalie [MitwirkendeR]; Clay, Catherine [MitwirkendeR]; Deen, Stella [MitwirkendeR]; DiCenzo, Maria [VerfasserIn]; DiCenzo, Maria [MitwirkendeR]; Eustance, Claire [MitwirkendeR]; Forster, Laurel [MitwirkendeR]; Glew, Helen [MitwirkendeR]; Goodman, Joyce [MitwirkendeR]; Gottlieb, Julie [MitwirkendeR]; Green, Barbara [VerfasserIn]; Green, Barbara [MitwirkendeR]; Hackney, Fiona [MitwirkendeR]; Hannam, June [MitwirkendeR]; Holden, Katherine [MitwirkendeR]; Hroncek, Susan [MitwirkendeR]; Hunt, Karen [MitwirkendeR]; Kalich, Natalie [MitwirkendeR]; Lonsdale, Sarah [MitwirkendeR]; Parkins, Ilya [MitwirkendeR]; Plock, Vike Martina [MitwirkendeR]; Roach, Rebecca [MitwirkendeR]; Sanders, Lise Shapiro [MitwirkendeR]; Sheehan, Elizabeth M. [MitwirkendeR]; Sheppard, Lisa [MitwirkendeR]; Stead, Lisa [MitwirkendeR]; Steele, Karen [MitwirkendeR]; Tinkler, Penny [MitwirkendeR]; Vries, Jacqueline R. de [MitwirkendeR]; Wood, Alice [MitwirkendeR]

imprint: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (528 p.); 25 B/W illustrations 14 colour illustrations

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781474412544

ISBN: 9781474412544

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Keywords: Women's periodicals, English History 20th century ; Literary Studies ; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Footnote: In English

Description: Provides new perspectives on women’s print media in interwar BritainThis collection of new essays recovers and explores a neglected archive of women’s print media and dispels the myth of the interwar decades as a retreat to ‘home and duty’ for women. The volume demonstrates that women produced magazines and periodicals ranging in forms and appeal from highbrow to popular, private circulation to mass-market, and radical to reactionary. It shows that the 1920s and 1930s gave rise to a plurality of new challenges and opportunities for women as consumers, workers and citizens, as well as wives and mothers. Featuring interdisciplinary research by recognised specialists in the fields of literary and periodical studies as well as women’s and cultural history, this volume recovers overlooked or marginalised media and archival sources, as well as reassessing well-known commercial titles. Designed as a ‘go-to’ resource both for readers new to the field and for specialists seeking the latest developments in this area of research, it opens up new directions and methodologies for modern periodical studies and cultural history.Organised by sections devoted to the arts, modern style, domestic and service magazines, and feminist and organizationally-based media, this volume foregrounds connections between different genres of women’s periodical publishing and makes a major contribution to revisionist scholarship on the interwar period. The detailed appendix provides a valuable resource to facilitate new research on interwar women's magazines. Key FeaturesPresents new essays on women’s print media in interwar Britain, revealing the diversity of genres addressed to women readers, from domestic magazines, pulps and women’s pages to highbrow reviews and feminist periodicalsFeatures innovative, interdisciplinary research by recognized specialists in the fields of literary and periodical studies, and women’s and cultural historyContributes to the recent expansion of scholarship on the interwar period by recovering overlooked or marginalized media and archival sources, as well as reassessing well-known commercial titlesDesigned as a ‘go to’ resource both for readers new to the field and for specialists seeking the latest developments in this area of research—opening up new directions and methodologies for modern periodicals studies and cultural history

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