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Women's periodicals and print culture in Britain, 1918-1939 : the interwar period /

This 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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Clay, Catherine, 1971- (Editor ), DiCenzo, Maria (Editor ), Green, Barbara, 1961- (Editor ), Hackney, Fiona (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Colección:Edinburgh history of women's periodical culture in Britain.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; 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 Lovers5 '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 Eve10 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 Press15 Labour Woman and the Housewife; 16 Friendship and Support, Confl ict 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: Introduction20 '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).