domesticity and desire in the woman's magazine, 1800-1914 /
First Statement of Responsibility
Margaret Beetham.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1996.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 242 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-229) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. Introduction -- pt. I. The making of the magazine, 1800-50. 2. The 'Fair Sex' and the Magazine: The Early Ladies' Journals. 3. The Queen, The Beauty and the Woman Writer. 4. Family and Mothers' Magazines: The 1830s and 1840s -- pt. II. The Beetons: The domestic English woman and the lady, 1850-80. 5. The Beetons and the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, 1852-60. 6. The Female Body and the Domestic Woman, 1860-80. 7. Re-Making the Lady: The Queen -- pt. III. New Woman, New Journalism, the 1880s and 1890s. 8. The New Woman and the New Journalism. 9. Revolting Daughters, Girton Girls and Advanced Women. 10. Advancing into Commodity Culture -- pt. IV. The reinvention of the domestic English woman: into the twentieth century. 11. Woman at Home: The Middle-Class Domestic Magazine and the Agony Aunt. 12. 'Forward But Not Too Fast': The Advanced Magazine? 13. Woman-Talk as Commodity: The Penny Domestic Magazine.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This is a lively and revealing exploration of the immensely popular form of the women's magazine. It is a chronological tracing of the history, a collection of case studies and a study of recent debates on gender and popular reading.