Journal articles: 'Women's magazines'

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Moore, Jacqueline, Anne Earless, and Tony Parsons. "Women's Magazines." Nutrition & Food Science 92, no. 3 (March 1992): 18–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb059371.

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Haider, Shirin. "Semiotics Ideology and Femininity in Popular Pakistani Women's Magazines." Hawwa 7, no. 3 (2009): 229–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156920709x12579112681765.

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AbstractDrawing on theoretical perspectives from Western feminist research on the genre of women's magazines, I adapt Lazar's model of feminist critical discourse analysis (2005; henceforth referred to as FCDA) to write a critique on the genre of popular Pakistani women's magazines as linguistic and semiotic constructs, which articulate a certain ideology regarding the construction of Pakistani womens' identity. Through semiotic analysis of certain sections of the magazines, I point out the underlying normative and ideological assumptions in order to show how these magazine representations position women; and how semiotics wield power in marginalizing the role of women in society. The restrictive nature of discourses on femininities is highlighted through an analysis of discursive linguistic and semiotic techniques and devices. I argue that the role of semiotics is central in shaping and reinforcing such asymmetrical, gendered and sexist social patterns and practices and that these images (can) have repercussions with regard to women's sexuality(ies) and their social roles and identities.

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Spence, D. "Women's magazines damage women's health." BMJ 345, jul12 1 (July 12, 2012): e4680-e4680. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e4680.

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Barthel, Diane, and Janice Winship. "Inside Women's Magazines." Contemporary Sociology 17, no. 6 (November 1988): 823. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2073625.

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Kirca, Süheyla. "Turkish women's magazines." Women's Studies International Forum 24, no. 3-4 (May 2001): 457–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0277-5395(01)00167-4.

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Aronson, Amy. "Reading Women's Magazines." Media History 6, no. 2 (December 2000): 111–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688800020008637.

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Busby, Linda J., and Greg Leichty. "Feminism and Advertising in Traditional and Nontraditional Women's Magazines 1950s-1980s." Journalism Quarterly 70, no. 2 (June 1993): 247–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769909307000202.

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In this study researchers content coded advertising images in traditional and nontraditional women's magazines in 1959, 1969, 1979 and 1989 to determine the impact of the feminist movement on consumer imagery. This timeframe allowed analysis from several historical vantages: 1959 (pre-feminist movement), 1969 (developing feminist ideology), 1979 (social implementation of ideology), 1989 (post feminist movement). The data were analyzed from the perspective of three major variables, the first being time (a specific decade); the second being magazine type (traditional or nontraditional women's magazines); and the third being product category. The study answers a primary research question: To what extent do ads in women's magazines (traditional and nontraditional) reflect the goals of the second feminist movement? A secondary research question is explored: Are advertising and the feminist movement incompatable, thus dooming “feminist publications” depending on ad dollars to demise?

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Rayner, Claire. "Writing for women's magazines." Women: A Cultural Review 2, no. 2 (June 1991): 113–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09574049108578070.

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Boyko, Vera. "Women's Magazines in Russian Provinces: Structural Characteristics." Theoretical and Practical Issues of Journalism 9, no. 4 (December 23, 2020): 727–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.17150/2308-6203.2020.9(4).727-739.

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The article studies the structure of the contemporary Russian provincial magazines for women, determines their typological basis, examines establishment and development of the conception of women’s press in various historical periods, and, by the example of the media landscape of provincial magazines, analyzes the features of publicity within women’s community in a particular region. Provincial press, being closer to the reader and able to form a targeted content, has a great informational potential and accurately reflects the community’s interests. Therefore, one of its tasks is to optimize the media landscape of a local female community as its publicity factor. This adds to the topicality of the research. The study sample included 33 contemporary women's magazines from 17 provinces of Russia. The aim was to determine the typological features of the magazines and estimate the impact of women’s press on solving the topical gender issues of the Russian woman. The results show prevalence of specialized women’s magazines in provincial press, which correlates with the general trend in the periodical press. Meanwhile, their typological structure is not optimized enough: the periodicals do not always match the audience's demand, and do not take all opportunities for that, either. Besides, multitopic provincial periodicals find it difficult to compete with well-known national and foreign magazines. One of the positive trends is the development of periodicals focused on careers, businesswomen and women in politics.

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Steinberg, Alissa, Judy Paisley, and Kristofer Bandayrel. "Antioxidant Health Messages: In Canadian Women's Magazines." Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research 72, no. 4 (December 2011): e197-e204. http://dx.doi.org/10.3148/72.4.2011.e197.

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Purpose: Recently, antioxidants have taken centre stage in media and advertising messages. While 80% of Canadians think they are well-informed about nutrition, many are confused about the health effects of specific nutrients. Forty-six percent of Canadians seek information from newspapers and books, and 67% of women rely on magazines. We examined the content and accuracy of antioxidant health messages in Canadian women's magazines. Methods: The top three Canadian magazines targeted at women readers were selected. A screening tool was developed, pilot tested, and used to identify eligible articles. A coding scheme was created to define variables, which were coded and analyzed. Results: Seventy-seven percent of 36 magazine issues contained articles that mentioned antioxidants (n=56). Seventyone percent (n=40) of articles reported positive health effects related to antioxidant consumption, and 36% and 40% of those articles framed those effects as definite and potential, respectively (p<0.01). Conclusions: The articles sampled conveyed messages about positive antioxidant health effects that are not supported by current evidence. Improved standards of health reporting are needed. Nutrition professionals may need to address this inaccuracy when they develop communications on antioxidants and health risk.

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Morrin, Danielle. "The foundation of American women's fashion magazines." Fashion, Style & Popular Culture 7, no. 2 (March 1, 2020): 247–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fspc_00017_1.

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Abstract This article traces the history of the first successful American women's fashion magazines, meaning publications that lasted longer than five years and with a national reach, which gained a foothold in the mid-1800s. The origin and growth of Godey's Lady's Book are highlighted as a model for many future publications, and two of its contemporaries: Harper's Bazar and The Delineator. The catalyst for this achievement in the magazine industry is examined through changing cultural attitudes towards leisure reading for women, increased time for recreation as made possible by modern technology and other technological advancements in publishing and distribution. In tandem with this development, career opportunities created for women within this growing industry and the continued cultivation of women's educational and vocational advancements are discussed. The important foundations established during this period have led to recognizable formulas for success that are still appreciated and utilized in the magazine industry today.

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Moyer, Cheryl A., Leilanya O. Vishnu, and Seema S. Sonnad. "PROVIDING HEALTH INFORMATION TO WOMEN." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 17, no. 1 (January 2001): 137–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266462301104125.

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Objectives: We were interested in health coverage in women's magazines in the United States and how it compared with articles in medical journals, women's health interests, and women's greatest health risks.Methods: We examined 12 issues of Good Housekeeping (GH) and Woman's Day (WD) and 63 issues of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). We tallied the most common health questions of women presenting to the University of Michigan's Women's Health Resource Center (WHRC) during the same period.Results: Less than a fifth of the magazine articles dealt with health-related topics. Of those, a third dealt with diet, with the majority emphasizing weight loss rather than eating for optimal health. Few of the articles cited research studies, and even fewer included the name of the journal in which the study was published. In JAMA and NEJM, less than one-fifth of original research studies dealt with women's health topics, most commonly pregnancy-related issues, hormone replacement therapy, breast and ovarian cancer, and birth defects. At the same time, the most common requests for information at the WHRC related to pregnancy, fertility, reproductive health, and cancer.Conclusion: The topics addressed in women's magazines do not appear to coincide with the topics addressed in leading medical journals, nor with women's primary health concerns or greatest health risks. Information from women's magazines may be leading women to focus on aspects of health and health care that will not optimize risk reduction.

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Spencer, Rosemary J., Jean M. Russell, and Margo E. Barker. "Temporality in British young women's magazines: food, cooking and weight loss." Public Health Nutrition 17, no. 10 (October 14, 2013): 2359–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980013002620.

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AbstractObjectiveThe present study examines seasonal and temporal patterns in food-related content of two UK magazines for young women focusing on food types, cooking and weight loss.DesignContent analysis of magazines from three time blocks between 1999 and 2011.SettingDesk-based study.SubjectsNinety-seven magazines yielding 590 advertisements and 148 articles.ResultsCluster analysis of type of food advertising produced three clusters of magazines, which reflected recognised food behaviours of young women: vegetarianism, convenience eating and weight control. The first cluster of magazines was associated with Christmas and Millennium time periods, with advertising of alcohol, coffee, cheese, vegetarian meat substitutes and weight-loss pills. Recipes were prominent in article content and tended to be for cakes/desserts, luxury meals and party food. The second cluster was associated with summer months and 2010 issues. There was little advertising for conventional foods in cluster 2, but strong representation of diet plans and foods for weight loss. Weight-loss messages in articles focused on short-term aesthetic goals, emphasising speedy weight loss without giving up nice foods or exercising. Cluster 3 magazines were associated with post-New Year and 2005 periods. Food advertising was for everyday foods and convenience products, with fewer weight-loss products than other clusters; conversely, article content had a greater prevalence of weight-loss messages.ConclusionsThe cyclical nature of magazine content – indulgence and excess encouraged at Christmas, restraint recommended post-New Year and severe dieting advocated in the summer months – endorses yo-yo dieting behaviour and may not be conducive to public health.

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Schirato, Tony, and Susan Yell. "The ‘New’ Men's Magazines and the Performance of Masculinity." Media International Australia 92, no. 1 (August 1999): 81–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x9909200110.

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In Australia in the 1990s, following on from the phenomenon of the ‘new woman's magazine', a new market in lifestyle magazines for men has emerged, distinct from magazines such as Penthouse, Playboy and Picture. This paper examines the phenomenon of the ‘new’ men's magazines, and argues that these magazines are a site in which contemporary performances of masculinities can be analysed, just as feminist and other analyses have examined and critiqued the production of feminine subjectivities through women's magazines. We introduce the market positioning and profile of these magazines, then analyse shifts in the available discourses for constructing masculine subjectivities as they are exemplified in one of the most successful of these magazines, Ralph. Making use of Judith Butler's concept of performance and her critique of Pierre Bourdieu's notion of the habitus, toe analyse a story in Ralph, concluding that Ralph's performances of ‘stereotypical’ masculinity are self-conscious ‘over-performances’ of a set of discourses and subjectivities which it recognises are already in a sense obsolete.

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Frith, Katherine. "Globalising Women: How Global Women's Magazines in China and Singapore Transmit Consumer Culture." Media International Australia 133, no. 1 (November 2009): 130–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0913300117.

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This article outlines some of the moral and cultural issues involved in the commercialising of Asian women by describing how the entrance of foreign women's magazines is changing the form and tone of women's magazines in both Singapore and China — respectively amongst the smallest and largest countries in Asia, but sharing a similar culture and language. While the populations of these two countries differ significantly in terms of income and education, nonetheless the rising incomes of middle-class women in both countries have attracted the attention of luxury brands and led to the rise of global women's magazines in both nations. Are women's magazines just frivolous and fun, or do they shape women's attitudes and values? Do the images in global media contribute to the empowerment of women or do they merely entangle them in a web of conspicuous consumption?

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Siudikienė, Daiva, and Lijana Stundžė. "For Peculiarities of Representation of Women's Roles and Their Changes in Women's Magazines: Case of the Magazine Moteris." Informacijos mokslai 92 (July 2, 2021): 65–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/im.2021.92.52.

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For a long time, the patriarchal tradition of portraying a woman as stereotypical has been established, confining her to traditional roles in the family and society. Media publications often become the main source of constructing attitudes and beliefs in society. The peculiarities of portraying women in the media are an important means of constructing women's self-awareness. The purpose of this article – to introduce the research conducted to investigate the peculiarities of representation of the women‘s roles in the women's magazines and their transformation. For implementation this research it has been chosen the largest monthly magazine for the Lithuanian women „Woman“ and the issues have been chosen published in 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2018 to fulfill the qualitative and quantitative content analysis. The transition from the Soviet system to the capitalist society is characterized by transformation of values, the search for national identity, the establishmen the new models of relations in the society, the establishmen to the lifestyle characteristic to the capitalist society, etc. The images presented in the media draw the attention of individuals and shape the public's perception of what a woman should be and what responsibilities are assigned to her.

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Miller, Cristanne. "Who Talks Like a Women's Magazine? Language and Gender in Popular Women's and Men's Magazines." Journal of American Culture 10, no. 3 (September 1987): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-734x.1987.1003_1.x.

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Plous, S., and Dominique Neptune. "Racial and Gender Biases in Magazine Advertising." Psychology of Women Quarterly 21, no. 4 (December 1997): 627–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1997.tb00135.x.

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Recent evidence suggests that racial and gender biases in magazine advertisements may be increasing. To explore this possibility, a content analysis was performed on 10 years of fashion advertisements drawn from magazines geared toward White women, Black women, or White men ( N = 1,800 advertisements from 1985–1994). The results indicated that (a) except for Black females in White women's magazines, African Americans were underrepresented in White magazines; (b) female body exposure was greater than male body exposure, and White female body exposure rose significantly during the 10 years; (c) White women were shown in low-status positions nearly twice as often as were other models; and (d) Black women wore the majority of animal prints, most of which were patterned after a predatory animal. These findings suggest that racial and gender biases in magazine advertising persisted, and in some cases increased, between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s.

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Thomsen, Steven R. "Health and Beauty Magazine Reading and Body Shape Concerns among a Group of College Women." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 79, no. 4 (December 2002): 988–1007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769900207900413.

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Research indicates that exposure to thin ideal images in women's magazines is associated with heightened concerns for body shape and size in a number of young women, although the media's role in the psychopathology of body image disturbance is generally believed to be mediated by personality and sociocultural factors. Here, data from a survey of 340 college-age women (ages 18–25) were used to test a structural equation model that examined three potential factors—hope, beliefs about men's expectations for female thinness, and expected weight gain or loss in five years—that might mediate the relationship between reading women's magazines and body shape and size concerns. The study found health and fitness magazine reading was linked directly to body shape concerns as well as indirectly through beliefs about men's thinness expectations and to a lesser degree through expected future weight gain or loss. Beauty and fashion magazine reading, however, was linked to body shape concerns only indirectly via beliefs about men's thinness expectations. Hope was not influenced directly by reading either type of magazine, nor did it mediate the relationship between reading and body shape concerns.

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Newman, Christy. "Reader Letters to Women's Health Magazines." Feminist Media Studies 7, no. 2 (June 2007): 155–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14680770701287027.

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Amos, Amanda, Camilla Bostock, and Yvonne Bostock. "Women's magazines and tobacco in Europe." Lancet 352, no. 9130 (September 1998): 786–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(05)60681-2.

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Harrington, R. "Cigarette advertising in European women's magazines." BMJ 304, no. 6825 (February 22, 1992): 509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.304.6825.509-c.

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Jolliffe, Lee. "Women's Magazines in the 19th Century." Journal of Popular Culture 27, no. 4 (March 1994): 125–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1994.2704_125.x.

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Heller, Janet Ruth. "PrimaveraandBlack Maria:Two Chicago women's literary magazines." Women's Studies 23, no. 2 (March 1994): 175–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00497878.1994.9979019.

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Cheng, Hong, and Katherine Toland Frith. "Going Global: An Analysis of Global Women's Magazine ADS in China." Media International Australia 119, no. 1 (May 2006): 138–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0611900113.

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Over the past few decades, some women's magazines have rapidly spread as a global medium. While previous researchers have noted that women's magazines act as agents of socialisation, perpetuating certain gender stereotypes and institutionalising certain gender conventions, there has been little research on how this global medium portrays women of various races. Combining content and semiotic analyses, this article is an examination of the context and content of ads that have appeared in the Chinese versions of global women's magazines. The study focused on Elle, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Harper's Bazaar, all global titles currently marketed in the Chinese mainland. Findings suggest that women of different races tend to be stereotyped in different ways in these magazines, and that Western models are presented in significantly different ways from Asian models. The impact of globalisation on these differences and the implications of the findings for global advertising are discussed.

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O'Hanlon, Ann, Therese Mendez, and Melissa Morrissette. "Gender Codes and Aging: Comparison of Features in Two Women's Magazines." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 324. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1039.

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Abstract Magazines and other media promote beauty standards and gender roles in feature articles and advertising. Publications present idealized images of women often in contrast to the average reader’s appearance. Analyses of such images suggest gender roles are reinforced through subtle cues embedded in hand gestures, eye gaze, head posture, and body position (Goffman, 1976). This study analyzed a recurrent feature in two different magazine presenting an idealized standard of aging to mature women. The first magazine, MORE, featured mature women, typically between the ages of 40 and 60, with the banner of “This is what (woman’s age) looks like.” MORE magazine is no longer in press, but another magazine, Women’s Day, began a similar recurrent column featuring a women between 40 and 60 with the title “Own Your Age—Yes, I am (women’s age).” Both features included copy describing the woman’s perspective on life and aging and a listing of specific beauty products that she uses. These features were analyzed as advertisements, because they promote a message about being a woman of a certain age and the specific products used to achieve that look. Three researchers coded 43 images from MORE magazine and 30 images from Woman’s Day for physical characteristics of aging and evidence of Goffman’s gender codes. Most photos presented women who appeared younger than their stated age. Images showed the presence of Goffman’s gender codes including feminine touch, ritualization of subordination, licensed withdrawal, and infantilization and were more prevalent in the MORE feature than Woman’s Day column.

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Lewis, Reina. "Looking Good: The Lesbian Gaze and Fashion Imagery." Feminist Review 55, no. 1 (March 1997): 92–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/fr.1997.6.

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This paper is concerned with the different forms of pleasure and identification activated in the consumption of dominant and subcultural print media. It centres on an analysis of the lesbian visual pleasures generated through the reading of fashion editorial in the new lesbian and gay lifestyle magazines. This consideration of the lesbian gaze is contrasted to the lesbian visual pleasures obtained from an against the grain reading of mainstream women's fashion magazines. The development of the lesbian and gay lifestyle magazines, in the context of the pink pound, produces a situation in which an eroticized lesbian visual pleasure is the overt remit of the magazine, rather than a clandestine pleasure obtained through a transgressive reading of dominant cultural imagery. In contrast to the polysemic free-play of fashion fantasy by which readers produce lesbian pleasure in the consumption of mainstream magazines, responses to the fashion content in the lesbian magazine Diva suggest that in a subcultural context readers deploy a realist mode of reading that demands a monosemic positive images iconography. The article uses the concept of subcultural competency to consider the different ways lesbians read mainstream and subcultural print media and suggests that the conflict over Diva‘s fashion spreads may be linked to changing patterns of identification and the use of dress for recognizability.

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Weiner, Susan. "Two Modernities: from Elle to Mademoiselle. Women's Magazines in Postwar France." Contemporary European History 8, no. 3 (November 1999): 395–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777399003045.

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Beginning with its first issue of 1945, Elle magazine was instrumental in changing the way the French saw female domesticity in the postwar period, infusing the domestic space with an aura of glamour and modernity. Newly glamorous female domesticity went hand-in-hand with images of women as voters and professionals, communicating to the magazine's readers that they could ‘have it all’ – but never to the exclusion of their primary identity as mothers and wives. This ultimately conservative postwar version of femininity came to be challenged in the early 1960s by Mademoiselle, a magazine that projected a reader unmarked by war memories and whose relationship to technology and modernity went beyond the home. Yet, Mademoiselle was grooming the fun-loving teenage girl as a consumer who would one day be a wife and mother as well; from one version of modernity to another, feminine destiny remained the same.

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Alexandra Nutter Smith. "The Ecofetish: Green Consumerism in Women's Magazines." WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly 38, no. 2 (2010): 66–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2010.0023.

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Blix, Jacqueline. "A Place to Resist: Reevaluating Women's Magazines." Journal of Communication Inquiry 16, no. 1 (January 1992): 56–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019685999201600105.

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Weiss, Jessica, and Nancy A. Walker. "Shaping Our Mothers' World: American Women's Magazines." Journal of American History 89, no. 2 (September 2002): 687. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3092278.

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Illouz, Eva. "Reason within passion: Love in women's magazines." Critical Studies in Mass Communication 8, no. 3 (September 1991): 231–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15295039109366796.

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Freeman, Lynne, and Susan Bell. "Women's magazines as facilitators of Christmas rituals." Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal 16, no. 3 (June 7, 2013): 336–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13522751311326134.

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Martinighi, Maiara, and Edina Mariko Koga da Silva. "Quality of diet plans for weight loss featured in women's magazines. A cross-sectional descriptive study." Sao Paulo Medical Journal 135, no. 4 (August 2017): 339–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1516-3180.2016.0301280217.

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ABSTRACT CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Brazil has the fifth largest population of obese individuals in the world. Women’s magazines publish a large number of diet plans, and therefore the objective of this study was to assess the quality of these plans. DESIGN: Cross-sectional descriptive study. METHODS: We included the Brazilian women’s magazines of highest circulation published between January and June 2014 that advertised diets for weight loss on their covers. We extracted the quantities of macro and micronutrients from each of these diet plans and compared these quantities with the World Health Organization nutritional guidelines for adult women. We also checked the total energy quantities of these plans, and any recommendations about water intake and physical activity. RESULTS: We identified 136 potentially eligible magazine issues; 41 were excluded and 95 issues of 6 different magazines were included in the study. We found that 83.1 % of the plans had carbohydrate and fiber levels below the recommendations. On the other hand, the protein and saturated fatty acid levels were above the recommendations in 97.8% and 95.7% of the plans, respectively; 75.7% of the diets had inadequate calcium levels and 70.5% had low iron levels. Only 30 plans specified the total daily quantity of dietary energy and in 53.3% of these, the information was inconsistent with our estimates; 20% of the plans had no recommendations on daily water intake and 37.5% did not give recommendations regarding physical activity practices. CONCLUSION: The diet plans for weight loss featured in Brazilian women’s magazines are of low quality.

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Whissell, Cynthia, and Lorna McCall. "Pleasantness, Activation, and Sex Differences in Advertising." Psychological Reports 81, no. 2 (October 1997): 355–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1997.81.2.355.

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Advertisements in men's, women's, girls', and boys' magazines ( n = 38,195 words) were scored objectively in terms of 15 measures of linguistic style, e.g., use of common words, use of long words, use of specific words and emotional tone (pleasantness and activation, as measured by the Dictionary of Affect). There were several sex- and age-related differences among advertisements from different sources. Advertisements from boys' magazines were extremely active, those from women's and girls' magazines were shorter and unusually pleasant. In two follow-up studies ( N = 122 volunteers), objective emotional measures of advertising text proved to be related to ratings of persuasion and of success of appeal for individual advertisements. The most preferred advertisement for women was pleasant and active, that for men unpleasant and active. When men and women created advertisements, women's were shorter and more pleasant.

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Waller-Zuckerman, Mary Ellen. "“Old Homes, in a City of Perpetual Change”: Women's Magazines, 1890–1916." Business History Review 63, no. 4 (1989): 715–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3115961.

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Although the growth of inexpensive, widely distributed magazines that began in the United States in the 1890s has been noted, the role played by magazines directed specifically toward female readers has received little scholarly attention. The following article examines contents, personnel, and readership and advertising, pricing, production, and distribution techniques to demonstrate that the women's magazines were pioneers in many of these areas.

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Lee, Eric T., David O'Riordan, Susan M. Swetter, Marie-France Demierre, Katie Brooks, and Alan C. Geller. "Sun Care Advertising in Popular U.S. Magazines." American Journal of Health Promotion 20, no. 5 (May 2006): 349–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.4278/0890-1171-20.5.349.

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Purpose. We assessed the placement of magazine advertising for sun care products to lay the groundwork for broader promotion to more diverse and high-risk demographic groups. Methods. We reviewed 579 issues of 24 magazines published between the months of May and September from 1997 to 2002. We conducted a cover-to-cover review of top-selling magazines for men, women, teens, parents, travelers, and outdoor recreation users. We determined if there were any advertisements for the following sun care products: sun tanning lotions containing sun protection factor (SPF), sunless tanners without SPF, sunscreen with SPF, moisturizers with SPF, or cosmetics with SPF (which include sunless tanners containing SPF). Results. Sun care products, including sunscreens, were advertised primarily in women's magazines (77%). Nearly two thirds of all sun care products advertised were either for cosmetics (38%) or moisturizers (26%) containing SPF, followed by ads for sunscreen sold as a stand-alone product (19%). None of the ads contained all of the recommendations for safe use of sunscreen: a minimum SPF of 15, both UVA and UVB protection, reapplication instructions, and an adequate application coverage of 2 milligrams per square centimeter. Discussion. Magazine advertising to men, travelers, outdoor recreation users, and parents/ families (totaling a circulation of 41 million readers) during this six-year period were far fewer than those for women, despite high rates of excessive sun exposure in these groups.

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Yu, Seung Yeob, Eun-A. Park, and Minjung Sung. "Cosmetics Advertisements in Women's Magazines: a Cross-Cultural Analysis of China and Korea." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 43, no. 4 (May 24, 2015): 685–704. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2015.43.4.685.

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We analyzed the content of cosmetics advertisements in women's magazines published in China and Korea and compared the Chinese ideal of beauty and psychosocial values to those of Korea. Our analysis of 341 advertisements showed that 62% of Korean advertisements were for domestic brands, and 46.2% depicted Korean models, with 19.3% depicting white models, whereas 75% of the Chinese cosmetics advertisements were for international brands, and 26.5% of them featured Chinese models, with 32.7% depicting white models. The results indicate that advertisers in the Chinese magazines more strongly presented Western images as ideals of beauty than did advertisers in Korean magazines. We also found that a high number of cosmetics advertisements in the Chinese magazines contained price information and emphasized psychosocial values, such as activeness and self-confidence, which were less common in advertisements in the Korean magazines. The results imply that Chinese consumers expect concrete product benefits and are more likely to aspire to Western-type beauty than are Korean consumers.

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Farrell, Amy E., and Ellen McCracken. "Desire and Consumption: Women's Magazines in the 1980s." American Quarterly 46, no. 4 (December 1994): 621. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2713389.

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Allbrooke, Jill. "Three Hundred Years of Women's Magazines, 1693-1993." Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community 7, no. 1 (March 1, 1994): 60–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1629/070160.

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Railo, Erkka. "Women's Magazines, the Female Body, and Political Participation." NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 22, no. 1 (January 2, 2014): 48–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2013.869620.

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Wilson, Sandra. "Rationalising imperialism: Women's magazines in the early 1930s." Japanese Studies 14, no. 1 (May 1994): 39–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10371399408727566.

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Moeran, Brian. "The Portrayal of Beauty in Women's Fashion Magazines." Fashion Theory 14, no. 4 (December 2010): 491–510. http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175174110x12792058833933.

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Stephenson, Sian. "THE CHANGING FACE OF WOMEN'S MAGAZINES IN RUSSIA." Journalism Studies 8, no. 4 (August 2007): 613–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616700701412076.

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Miller, Laura. "People Types: Personality Classification in Japanese Women's Magazines." Journal of Popular Culture 31, no. 2 (September 1997): 143–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1997.00143.x.

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McKay *, Susan, and Frances Bonner. "Educating readers: breast cancer in Australian women's magazines." International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 17, no. 4 (July 2004): 517–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09518390410001709571.

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Siddiqui, Nadia. "Women's magazines in Asian and Middle Eastern countries." South Asian Popular Culture 12, no. 1 (January 2, 2014): 29–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14746689.2014.879423.

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Graham, Sophie‐Charlotte, David Bawden, and Davin Nicholas. "Health information provision in men and women's magazines." Aslib Proceedings 49, no. 5 (May 1997): 117–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb051457.

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Hayashi, Reiko. "Helping!?: Images and Control in Japanese Women's Magazines." Women's Studies in Communication 18, no. 2 (October 1995): 189–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07491409.1995.11089798.

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Kessler, Lauren. "Women's Magazines' Coverage of Smoking Related Health Hazards." Journalism Quarterly 66, no. 2 (June 1989): 316–445. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769908906600207.

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