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Foregrounds the diversity of periodicals, fiction and other printed matter targeted at women in the postwar period Foregrounds the diversity and the significance of print cultures for women in the postwar period across periodicals, fiction and other printed matterExamines changes and continuities as women's magazines have moved into digital formatsHighlights the important cultural and political contexts of women's periodicals including the Women's Liberation Movement and SocialismExplores the significance of women as publishers, printers and editors Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s draws attention to the wide range of postwar print cultures for women. The collection spans domestic, cultural and feminist magazines and extends to ephemera, novels and other printed matter as well as digital magazine formats. The range of essays indicates both the history of publishing for women and the diversity of readers and audiences over the mid-late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century in Britain. The collection reflects in detail the important ways in magazines and printed matter contributed to, challenged, or informed British women's culture. A range of approaches, including interview, textual analysis and industry commentary are employed in order to demonstrate the variety of ways in which the impact of postwar print media may be understood.

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"From wartime labour to Web 3.0, from recipes to reproductive rights: this book reveals the full range of topics covered in women's periodicals. Many areas of feminist print activism come into view for the first time, and the essays demonstrate the crucial role of print culture in the lives of women readers. Invaluable.-- ""Faye Hammill, University of Glasgow"""

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Laurel Forster is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at University of Portsmouth. Her research interests are in women's cultural history, women's magazines and women's modernist writing. She is author of Magazine Movements: Women's Culture, Feminisms and Media Form (Bloomsbury 2015) and numerous other articles on women's magazines and media cultures. She has co-edited a number of books including: Historicising the Women's Liberation Movement in the Western World: 1960-1999 (Routledge 2018); British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010), The Recipe Reader: Narratives, Contexts, Traditions (Ashgate 3003). Joanne Hollows is a writer and independent researcher who previously had a long career teaching in British universities, most recently as Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University. She is the author of Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture (Manchester University Press 2000), Domestic Cultures (Open University Press 2008) and Media Studies: a Complete Introduction (John Murray 2016), and co-author of Food and Cultural Studies (Routledge 2004). She has co-edited numerous academic collections including Feminism, Domesticity and Popular Culture (Routledge 2009) and Feminism in Popular Culture (Berg 2006).

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