Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939
The Interwar Period
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University of Wolverhampton
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 279
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474412537
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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3
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- Additional information
- This edited book is part of a ground-breaking series on British women’s magazines published by Edinburgh University Press (EUP) and is the first to assess the relationship between suffrage, trade, literary, highbrow, popular and mass-market magazines. Comprising thirty new invited essays from leading international scholars, the collection contests the myth of a retreat to ‘home and duty’ for women in the period. Hackney is joint editor with Prof Maria DiCenzo, Dr Catherine Clay and Dr Barbara Green, international experts in women’s print media. She co-wrote the introduction and was solely responsible for Part III ‘Reimagining Homes, Housewives and Domesticity’, authoring the section introduction. She contributed a single-authored chapter, arguing that consumer magazines mediated new modes of female agency for women as active modern citizens, and input into the Appendix, which provides an important new resource in this under-researched field.
Hackney’s chapter was disseminated as a keynote for a conference on interwar women’s magazines (University of Reading 2017) and has been disseminated at international conferences (Design History Society, Modernist Studies Association etc.).
Acknowledging the important contribution of modernist studies to twentieth-century periodicals research, this volume also considers its limitations as a lens for examining women’s print media. It demonstrates how periodicals promoted highbrow, middlebrow, popular literary and cultural materials, often side by side. This and an interdisciplinary approach, including visual and material culture perspectives, offers a more complicated and nuanced understanding of magazines and their readerships.
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