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

by Beetham,Margaret

• ISBN13: 9780415049207
• ISBN10: 0415049202
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-05-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Women's magazines are a huge and influential industry. Because of their almost exclusive female readership, they hold huge potential for empowering women, though at the same time they appear to be peddling an oppressive image of woman as domestic goddess, fashion icon, and sex figure. A Magazine of Her Own?, Margaret Beetham's fascinating study of the development of women's magazines, reveals in fascinating detail just how they have shaped the images of women which prevail today.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. x
List of Periodical Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Making of the Magazine, 1800-50	p. 15
The 'Fair Sex' and the Magazine: the Early Ladies' Journals	p. 17
The Queen, the Beauty and the Woman Writer	p. 36
Family and Mothers' Magazines: the 1830s and 1840s	p. 45
The Beetons: the Domestic English Woman and the Lady, 1850-80	p. 57
The Beetons and the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, 1852-60	p. 59
The Female Body and the Domestic Woman, 1860-80	p. 71
Re-Making the Lady: the Queen	p. 89
New Woman, New Journalism, the 1880s and 1890s	p. 113
The New Woman and the New Journalism	p. 115
Revolting Daughters, Girton Girls and Advanced Women	p. 131
Advancing into Commodity Culture	p. 142
The Reinvention of the Domestic English Woman: into the Twentieth Century	p. 155
Woman at Home: the Middle-Class Domestic Magazine and the Agony Aunt	p. 157
'Forward but Not Too Fast': the Advanced Magazine?	p. 174
Woman-Talk as Commodity: the Penny Domestic Magazine	p. 190
Notes	p. 210
Select Bibliography of Magazines Consulted	p. 216
Bibliography	p. 218
Index	p. 231
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