- 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
Ireland and Sapphic Journalism between the Wars: A Case Study of Urania (1916–40)
Ireland and Sapphic Journalism between the Wars: A Case Study of Urania (1916–40)
- Chapter:
- (p.388) 25 Ireland and Sapphic Journalism between the Wars: A Case Study of Urania (1916–40)
- Source:
- Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939
- Author(s):
Karen Steele
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
This chapter examines the Irish dimension of the bi-monthly (later tri-annual) periodical Urania (1916-1940) through a focus on the influence of Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926). Gore-Booth’s editorial vision and writing for Urania conveyed a radical message about gender and sexuality: ‘sex is an accident.’ On its pages, Urania assiduously collected a hidden history of lesbians, transsexuals, and intersexuality and advanced a transnational, cross-cultural critique of gender norms, gendered performances, and compulsory heterosexuality. Urania initially sought to broaden its appeal by supporting votes for women, but remained more intent on serving as a ‘queer archive’ dedicated to dismantling gender norms and documenting women’s past and present examples of transsexuality, intersexuality, cross-dressing, and lesbianism. In its remediation of the global press, Urania also constructed a composite, feminist portrait of a society free of gender essentialism and heterosexual normativity. The journal was affiliated with the Aëthnic Union, a small, radical organisation founded in 1911.
Keywords: Urania, Eva Gore-Booth, Aëthnic Union, Ireland, transnational, queer archive, sexuality, intersexuality, transexuality, lesbianism
Edinburgh Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
- 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
