Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction: Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s–2010s 1
6. Part I: Publishing Industries and Practices
7. 1. Culture Versus Commerce: The Publishing of Feminist Books Since the 1940s 29
8. 2. Spare Rib and the Print Culture of Women’s Liberation 46
9. 3. The Impact of the Women-Only Publishing Phenomenon on Early Second-Wave Feminism, Literature and Culture 67
10. 4. Producing a Lesbian Magazine at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century 83
11. 5. ‘Hey, here’s the new way’: Young Women’s Magazines in Times of the Web 3.0 96
12. Part II: Interacting with Readers
13. Part II: Interacting with Readers 6. ‘There is a War on. Does She Know?’: Transatlantic Female Stardom and Women’s Wartime Labour in British Film Fan Magazines 117
14. 7. ‘The Most Helpful Friends in the World’: Letters Pages, Expertise and Emotion in British Women’s Magazines, c. 1960–80 133
15. 8. ‘Everything a Girl Could Ask For’? Fashioning Feminism in Just Seventeen 150
16. Part III: Tastemaking: Arts and Culture
17. 9. ‘When is a writer not a writer? When he’s a man’: Women’s Literary Award Culture in Britain 1940–2019 167
18. 10. Arena Three Magazine and the Construction of the Middlebrow Lesbian Reader 185
19. 11. Always in with the In-Crowd: Vogue and the Cultural Politics of Gender, Race, Class and Taste 200
20. 12. ‘Leaps and Bounds’: Feminist Interventions in Scottish Literary Magazine Culture 215
21. 13. Promoting Involvement in Performance: Performing Arts Journals and Women Writers, 1945–69 229
22. Part IV: Feminisms and Activisms
23. 14. ‘It’s Capitalism, not me sweetheart’: Women’s Activist Magazines on the Left 245
24. 15. Women’s Voice, the Rise and Fall of a Socialist-Feminist Newspaper in Britain 1972–82 261
25. 16. Spare Rib, Ms. and Reproductive Rights: A Comparative Analysis of Approaches 276
26. 17. Digital Feminist Cultures 293
27. 18. ‘Alive, practical and different’: Harpies & Quines and Scottish Feminist Print in the 1990s 307
28. Part V: Negotiating Femininities
29. 19. ‘Doing Food’ in Vogue 325
30. 20. Frank – Frocks, Politics, Lipstick, Handbags, Human Rights, Babies, Gardening, Stilettos and Fridge Magnets 338
31. 21. Writing about Mothering and Childcare in the British Women’s Liberation Movement, 1970–85 351
32. 22. Beyond Utility: Pushing the Frontiers in Women’s Monthlies: Modern Woman 1943–51 366
33. Appendix 385
34. Notes on Contributors 406
35. Index 411
36. Plates 429