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Description of  Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period (The Edinburgh History of Women's Periodical Culture in Britain)

Provides new perspectives on womens print media in interwar Britain This collection of new essays recovers and explores a neglected archive of womens print media and dispels the myth of the interwar decades as a retreat to home and duty for women. The volume demonstrates that women produced magazines and periodicals ranging in forms and appeal from highbrow to popular, private circulation to mass-market, and radical to reactionary. It shows that the 1920s and 1930s gave rise to a plurality of new challenges and opportunities for women as consumers, workers and citizens, as well as wives and mothers. Featuring interdisciplinary research by recognised specialists in the fields of literary and periodical studies as well as womens and cultural history, this volume recovers overlooked or marginalised media and archival sources, as well as reassessing well-known commercial titles. Designed as a go-to resource both for readers new to the field and for specialists seeking the latest developments in this area of research, it opens up new directions and methodologies for modern periodical studies and cultural history. Read more