Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s: The Postwar and Contemporary Period

Foregrounds the diversity of periodicals, fiction and other printed matter targeted at women in the postwar periodWomen'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 essays examine both mainstream and independent publishing for women. They consider the history of publishing for women, the social contexts, and the ways in which the publications were used and understood by their readers over this long postwar period.The collection reflects in detail the important ways in which ways magazines and printed matter contributed to, challenged or informed British women's culture. A range of approaches, including interview, textual analysis and industry commentary, is employed in order to demonstrate the variety of ways in which the impact of postwar print media may be understood.Laurel Forster is Reader in Women's Cultural History at the University of Portsmouth. She is the author of Magazine Movements: Women's Culture, Feminisms and Media Form (2015) and numerous articles on women's magazines, modernist literature and cultural history.Joanne Hollows is a writer and independent researcher who previously had a long career teaching in British universities. She is the author of Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture (2000), Domestic Cultures (2008) and Media Studies: A Complete Introduction (2016).