‘Women’s Words, Women’s Bodies: Late Nineteenth Century English Feminisms in the ‘Interview’ column of the Women’s Penny Paper/Woman’s Herald (Oct. 27, 1888- Apr. 23, 1892)
- Submitting institution
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York St John University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 476
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/09612025.2019.1676962
- Title of journal
- Women’s History Review
- Article number
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- First page
- 1149
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 7
- ISSN
- 0961-2025
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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http://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/4063/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Research Rationale Historians have written extensively on early 20thC British women’s suffrage, and late 19thC feminisms. Nevertheless, there is still an insufficiency in studies that attend to the textual and visual contents of late 19thC feminist periodicals. Non-mainstream periodicals produced by women for women allow us to explore distinctive hybrid modes of gender. They also offer us exclusive access into the everyday experiences, and individual thoughts of actual late 19thC women. This article focused on women’s interviews and portraits published in the Women’s Penny Paper/Women’s Herald, demonstrating that they often combined traditional with more radical emergent signifiers of womanhood in written and pictorial form. The article aimed to: highlight the diversity of emerging womanhoods that existed during the last two decades of the 19thC; determine the contribution of the Paper/Herald’s interviews to the general New Womanhood debate; reveal the significance of offering a combined message through text and image, and the manner in which this was used to drive the women’s movement agenda.
Methodology The texts discussed include selected excerpts from the weekly ‘Interview’ column of the Paper/Herald, typically written by various often anonymous interviewers. All primary material has been sourced through the Gale 19thC UK Periodicals database. The texts and portraits are examined within the socio-cultural and political context of the period, occasionally involving ideas from 20thC and 21stC women’s studies, fashion history, and sociology.
Dissemination The output was published as a journal article in the peer-reviewed Women’s History Review (ISSN: 0961-2025) in December 2019. It is accessible here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09612025.2019.1676962 and has since been downloaded 64 times. The final proof of the article is available to all York St John University employees via this link https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/4063/ and has been downloaded at least 10 times.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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