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- Title Pages
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- General Introduction: Re-mediating Women and the Interwar Period
- Culture and the Modern Woman: Introduction
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1 ‘Tricks of Aspect and the Varied Gifts of Daylight’: Representations of Books and Reading in Interwar Women’s Periodicals -
2 ‘A Journal of the Period’: Modernism and Conservative Modernity in Eve: The Lady’s Pictorial (1919–29) -
3 Sketching Out America’s Jazz Age in British Vogue -
4 Clemence Dane’s Literary Criticism for Good Housekeeping: Cultivating a ‘Small, Comical, Lovable, Eternal Public’ of Book Lovers -
5 ‘The Magazine Short Story and the Real Short Story’: Consuming Fiction in the Feminist Weekly Time and Tide -
6 Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s -
7 ‘Dear Cinema Girls’: Girlhood, Picture-going, and the Interwar Film Magazine - Styling Modern Life: Introduction
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8 Now and Forever? Fashion Magazines and the Temporality of the Interwar Period -
9 ‘Eve Goes Synthetic’: Modernising Feminine Beauty, Renegotiating Masculinity in Britannia and Eve -
10 Miss Modern: Youthful Feminine Modernity and the Nascent Teenager, 1930–40 -
11 ‘The Lady Interviewer and her methods’: Chatter, Celebrity, and Reading Communities -
12 The Picturegoer: Cinema, Rotogravure, and the Reshaping of the Female Face - Reimagining Homes, Housewives, and Domesticity: Introduction
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13 Housekeeping, Citizenship, and Nationhood in Good Housekeeping and Modern Home -
14 Modern Housecraft? Women’s Pages in the National Daily Press -
15 Labour Woman and the Housewife -
16 Friendship and Support, Conflict and Rivalry: Multiple Uses of the Correspondence Column in Childcare Magazines, 1919–39 -
17 Documentary Feminism: Evelyn Sharp, the Women’s Pages, and the Manchester Guardian -
18 Y Gymraes (The Welshwoman): Ambivalent Domesticity in Women’s Welsh-language Interwar Print Media -
19 Woman Appeal. A New Rhetoric of Consumption: Women’s Domestic Magazines in the 1920s and 1930s - Feminist Media and Agendas for Change: Introduction
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20 ‘Many More Worlds to Conquer’: The Feminist Press Beyond Suffrage -
21 The Essay Series and Feminist Debate: Controversy and Conversation about Women and Work In Time and Tide -
22 Internationalism, Empire, and Peace in the Woman Teacher, 1920–39 -
23 Providing and Taking the Opportunity: Women Civil Servants and Feminist Periodical Culture in Interwar Britain -
24 Debating Feminism in the Socialist Press: Women and the New Leader -
25 Ireland and Sapphic Journalism between the Wars: A Case Study of Urania (1916–40) - Women’s Organisations and Communities of Interest: Introduction
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26 Housewives and Citizens: Encouraging Active Citizenship in the Print Media of Housewives’ Associations during the Interwar Years -
27 Woman’s Outlook 1919–39: An Educational Space for Co-operative Women -
28 A Periodical of Their Own: Feminist Writing in Religious Print Media -
29 Women’s Print Media, Fascism, and the Far Right in Britain Between the Wars -
30 ‘The Sheep and the Goats’: Interwar Women Journalists, the Society of Women Journalists, and the Woman Journalist - Appendix
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
‘Dear Cinema Girls’: Girlhood, Picture-going, and the Interwar Film Magazine
‘Dear Cinema Girls’: Girlhood, Picture-going, and the Interwar Film Magazine
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- (p.103) 7 ‘Dear Cinema Girls’: Girlhood, Picture-going, and the Interwar Film Magazine
- Source:
- Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939
- Author(s):
Lisa Stead
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474412537.003.0009
This chapter explores the role of the interwar British fan magazine in mediating ideas about modern British girlhood. Film periodicals invited readers into a complex and unstable network of film-inflected girlhoods in a period during which youthful femininity was defined more closely in relation to class and marital status than age, and in which representations of unmarried working girls and young wives had complex roles to play in defining national culture. The chapter suggests that reading the interwar film magazine is a distinct new way to re-read the narrative of ‘home and duty’, complicating a domestic ideal by offsetting more glamorous images and alternative possibilities of modern femininity against more conservative discourses on female identity. It argues that print cultures of film affected ideas about girlhood, class, and mass culture in this way, allowing their readers to simultaneously assign, test out, and in some ways re-write girls’ culturally ascribed domestic roles.
Keywords: film magazine, fan magazine, girlhood, femininity, class, mass culture, domestic
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- Title Pages
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- General Introduction: Re-mediating Women and the Interwar Period
- Culture and the Modern Woman: Introduction
-
1 ‘Tricks of Aspect and the Varied Gifts of Daylight’: Representations of Books and Reading in Interwar Women’s Periodicals -
2 ‘A Journal of the Period’: Modernism and Conservative Modernity in Eve: The Lady’s Pictorial (1919–29) -
3 Sketching Out America’s Jazz Age in British Vogue -
4 Clemence Dane’s Literary Criticism for Good Housekeeping: Cultivating a ‘Small, Comical, Lovable, Eternal Public’ of Book Lovers -
5 ‘The Magazine Short Story and the Real Short Story’: Consuming Fiction in the Feminist Weekly Time and Tide -
6 Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s -
7 ‘Dear Cinema Girls’: Girlhood, Picture-going, and the Interwar Film Magazine - Styling Modern Life: Introduction
-
8 Now and Forever? Fashion Magazines and the Temporality of the Interwar Period -
9 ‘Eve Goes Synthetic’: Modernising Feminine Beauty, Renegotiating Masculinity in Britannia and Eve -
10 Miss Modern: Youthful Feminine Modernity and the Nascent Teenager, 1930–40 -
11 ‘The Lady Interviewer and her methods’: Chatter, Celebrity, and Reading Communities -
12 The Picturegoer: Cinema, Rotogravure, and the Reshaping of the Female Face - Reimagining Homes, Housewives, and Domesticity: Introduction
-
13 Housekeeping, Citizenship, and Nationhood in Good Housekeeping and Modern Home -
14 Modern Housecraft? Women’s Pages in the National Daily Press -
15 Labour Woman and the Housewife -
16 Friendship and Support, Conflict and Rivalry: Multiple Uses of the Correspondence Column in Childcare Magazines, 1919–39 -
17 Documentary Feminism: Evelyn Sharp, the Women’s Pages, and the Manchester Guardian -
18 Y Gymraes (The Welshwoman): Ambivalent Domesticity in Women’s Welsh-language Interwar Print Media -
19 Woman Appeal. A New Rhetoric of Consumption: Women’s Domestic Magazines in the 1920s and 1930s - Feminist Media and Agendas for Change: Introduction
-
20 ‘Many More Worlds to Conquer’: The Feminist Press Beyond Suffrage -
21 The Essay Series and Feminist Debate: Controversy and Conversation about Women and Work In Time and Tide -
22 Internationalism, Empire, and Peace in the Woman Teacher, 1920–39 -
23 Providing and Taking the Opportunity: Women Civil Servants and Feminist Periodical Culture in Interwar Britain -
24 Debating Feminism in the Socialist Press: Women and the New Leader -
25 Ireland and Sapphic Journalism between the Wars: A Case Study of Urania (1916–40) - Women’s Organisations and Communities of Interest: Introduction
-
26 Housewives and Citizens: Encouraging Active Citizenship in the Print Media of Housewives’ Associations during the Interwar Years -
27 Woman’s Outlook 1919–39: An Educational Space for Co-operative Women -
28 A Periodical of Their Own: Feminist Writing in Religious Print Media -
29 Women’s Print Media, Fascism, and the Far Right in Britain Between the Wars -
30 ‘The Sheep and the Goats’: Interwar Women Journalists, the Society of Women Journalists, and the Woman Journalist - Appendix
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
