Periodical Feminisms

Victoria Bazin is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Northumbria University, England. She is the author of Modernism Edited: Marianne Moore and the Dial Magazine (2019) and Marianne Moore and the Cultures of Modernity (2010). Melanie Waters is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Northumbria University, England. She is the author, with Rebecca Munford, of Feminism and Popular Culture (2013) and the editor of Women on Screen: Feminism and Femininity in Visual Culture (2011). Eleanor Careless is a Research Fellow at the British School at Rome. She is the author of Incarceration in the Poetry of Anna Mendelssohn: Serve your own Sentences (2025) and of articles published in College Literature, New Formations, Modernist Cultures, and Women: A Cultural Review.

Through its focus on affect–expressions of hope, anger, loneliness and joy–in feminist periodicals after 1968, Periodical Feminisms: Form and Feeling in UK Women’s Movement Magazines sheds new light on this important (and increasingly relevant) archive, while offering fresh, inspiring methods of study for scholars of feminist print.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsA Note on Feminist FeelingsIntroduction: Feminist Periodicals and the UK Women’s Liberation MovementVictoria Bazin and Melanie Waters1. Mediating Feminist Affect in the 1970sVictoria Bazin and Melanie Waters2.Turning to HopeVictoria Bazin3.Anger and Activism in Feminist PeriodicalsMelanie Waters4.LonelinessEleanor Careless5.The Joyful Resistance of Feminist MagazinesMelanie WatersCodaMelanie WatersBibliography