Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939

Catherine Clay is Senior Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University. She is author of British Women Writers 1914–1945: Professional Work and Friendship (Ashgate, 2006) and has published articles and book chapters on interwar women’s writing and women’s journalism. Her new monograph, Time and Tide: the Feminist and Cultural Politics of a Modern Magazine, is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press. Maria DiCenzo is Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has published on the British suffrage press in journals such as Media History and Women’s History Review. She co-edited Feminism and the Periodical Press, 1900–1918 (Routledge, 2005) and authored Feminist Media History: Suffrage, Periodicals and the Public Sphere (Palgrave, 2011) with Lucy Delap and Leila Ryan. Her current research examines British and international feminist activism and periodicals in the interwar period. Barbara Green is Professor of English and Concurrent Faculty in Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Feminist Periodicals and Daily Life: Women and Modernity in British Culture, Spectacular Confessions: Autobiography, Performative Activism, and the Sites of Suffrage, 1905-1938, and a co-editor of Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939. She was the co-editor of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies from 2015 through 2022. Fiona Hackney is Professor in Fashion and Textiles Theories at Wolverhampton University. Her forthcoming monograph Women’s Magazines and the Feminine Imagination: Opening up a New World for Women in Interwar Britain will be published by I.B.Tauris. She has published widely on women, design, and the decorative arts, and is Principal Investigator on a number of Arts and Humanities Research Council projects exploring the value of creative making and maker spaces as a means of community engagement.

‘"Plurality of voices" aptly describes Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918–1939, because the chapters in this fourth title of a five-volume set examine the notion of modern women as more than merely domestic’ - K. Lynass, CHOICE Connect

• General IntroductionCatherine Clay, Maria DiCenzo, Barbara Green and Fiona HackneySection One: Culture and the Modern WomanIntroductionCatherine ClayChapter 1: "Tricks of Aspect and the Varied Gifts of Daylight": Representations of Books and Reading in Interwar Women’s Periodicals Claire BattershillChapter 2: "A Journal of the Period": Modernism and Conservative Modernity in Eve: The Lady’s Pictorial (1919–1929)Vike Martina PlockChapter 3: Sketching Out America’s Jazz Age in British VogueNatalie KalichChapter 4: Clemence Dane’s Literary Criticism for Good Housekeeping: Cultivating a "Small, Comical, Lovable, Eternal Public" of Book LoversStella DeenChapter 5: "The Magazine Short Story and the Real Short Story": Consuming Fiction in the Feminist Weekly Time and TideCatherine ClayChapter 6: Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920sLise Shapiro SandersChapter 7: "Dear Cinema Girls": Girlhood, Picturegoing and the Interwar Film MagazineLisa SteadSection Two: Styling Modern LifeIntroduction Barbara Green Chapter 8: Now and Forever?: Fashion Magazines and the Temporality of the Interwar PeriodElizabeth M. SheehanChapter 9: ‘Eve Goes Synthetic’: Modernising Feminine Beauty, Renegotiating Masculinity in Britannia and EveIlya ParkinsChapter 10: Miss Modern: Youthful Feminine Modernity and the Nascent Teenager, 1930-40Penny TinklerChapter 11: ‘The Lady Interviewer and her methods’: Chatter, Celebrity, and Reading CommunitiesRebecca RoachChapter 12: The Picturegoer: Cinema, Rotogravure, and the Reshaping of the Female FaceGerry BeeganSection Three: Reimagining Homes, Housewives, and DomesticityIntroductionFiona HackneyChapter 13: Housekeeping, Citizenship and Nationhood in Good Housekeeping and Modern HomeAlice WoodChapter 14: Modern Housecraft? Women’s Pages in the National Daily PressAdrian BinghamChapter 15: Labour Woman and the HousewifeKaren HuntChapter 16: Friendship and Support, Conflict and Rivalry: Multiple Uses of the Correspondence Column in Childcare Magazines, 1919–1939Kath HoldenChapter 17: Documentary Feminism: Evelyn Sharp, the Women’s Pages and the Manchester GuardianBarbara GreenChapter 18: Y Gymraes (The Welshwoman): Ambivalent Domesticity in Women's Welsh-language Interwar Print MediaLisa SheppardChapter 19: Woman Appeal. A New Rhetoric of Consumption: Women’s Domestic Magazines in the 1920s and 1930sFiona Hackney Section Four: Feminist Media and Agendas for ChangeIntroductionMaria DiCenzoChapter 20: ‘Many More Worlds to Conquer’: the Feminist Press Beyond SuffrageMaria DiCenzo and Claire EustanceChapter 21: The Essay Series and Feminist Debate: Controversy and Conversation about Women and Work in Time and TideLaurel ForsterChapter 22: Internationalism, Empire and Peace in the Women Teacher, 1920-1939Joyce GoodmanChapter 23: Providing and Taking the Opportunity: Women Civil Servants and Feminist Periodical Culture in Interwar BritainHelen GlewChapter 24: Debating Feminism in the Socialist Press: Women and the New LeaderJune HannamChapter 25: Ireland and Sapphic Journalism between the Wars: A Case Study of Urania (1916-1940)Karen SteeleSection Five: Women’s Organisations and Communities of InterestIntroductionMaria DiCenzo Chapter 26: Housewives and Citizens: Encouraging Active Citizenship in the Print Media of Housewives’ Associations during the Interwar YearsCaitríona Beaumont　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Chapter 27: Woman's Outlook 1919-1939: An Educational Space for Co-operative WomenNatalie BradburyChapter 28: A Periodical of Their Own: Feminist Writing in Religious Print MediaJacqueline R. deVriesChapter 29: Women’s Print Media, Fascism and the Far Right in Britain Between the WarsJulie GottliebChapter 30: ‘The Sheep and the Goats’: Interwar Women Journalists, the Society of Women Journalists, and the Woman JournalistSarah Lonsdal