Dissertations / Theses: 'Women magazines'

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Arterbery, Andrea. "The Invisible Woman: A Study of Black Women in Magazine Beauty Advertisements." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1505270/.

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Ndzamela, Viwe. "Representations of women in women's magazines." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002930.

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Women’s magazines as a popular form of entertainment are among the media products that have been criticised for misrepresenting women. These popular magazines are often condemned for their failure to represent women in a positive light although they claim to target women as their market. The objective of this research is to assess and analyse representations of women in selected women’s magazines. Because women’s magazines are part of popular culture, which is not only concerned with the production process but also takes into consideration the needs of the readers, the research seeks to find out whether these magazines meet the expectations of its readers. The study is a combination of qualitative analysis, which looks at the frequency and the manner in which women are represented, with a qualitative interpretation of women’s roles within those representations. The issue of representations of women in women’s magazines is a very complex one as magazines, like other cultural texts are open to multiple interpretations. Consequently, multiple conclusions have been reached and the outcome of the study is therefore a series of three conclusions based on feature articles, advertisements and at a theoretical level.

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Marcellus, Jane Berry. "Women, work, and femininity : representation of employed women in U.S. magazines, 1918-1941 /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3136434.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 353-372). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Cooper, Kia Ja'Shona. "Representation of Women Leaders in Business Magazines: 2010-2018." UNF Digital Commons, 2019. https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/866.

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This framing analysis focuses on the portrayal of women leaders in popular business magazines. Framing theory was used to examine how women leaders were portrayed in Forbes, Fortune, Entrepreneur, and Bloomberg Businessweek magazines from 2010-2018. The study identified three key frames, which include the minority frame, asset and fixer frame, and the work-life balance frame. Further findings from the study suggested that the portrayals of women have changed following the women's movement in the 1970's and that women are indeed beneficial to organizations in senior-level positions, although there is still a low percentage of women in these roles.

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Touarti, Christina M. "Representations of cosmetic surgery in women's magazines." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1185417036.

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Lorenset, Caroline Chioquetta. "Visual and lexicogrammatical analysis of websites of women`s magazines." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2012. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/94025.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente, Florianópolis, 2010
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Critical discourse analysis focuses on different types of media texts as an object of investigation, emphasizing the relation between language and social context. This study aims to investigate verbal and visual aspects of articles retrieved from websites of women's magazines from Brazil (Nova) and from the United States (Cosmopolitan). Articles were chosen following specific characteristics: 1) the verbal references of the titles could mention women and men directly or indirectly, but had to talk about them or the relationship among them; 2) the images presented in the articles could be full-body or partial, as long as the reader could identify the subjects as "man" or "woman"; 3) the articles were retrieved from the section "Sex and love" or "Sexo e Amor" of the magazines' website, because they referred to the relationship among men and women, whether they were single or not. The articles were analyzed based on Systemic Functional Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Visual Grammar and gender studies. The conclusion suggests that a) women`s magazines' websites make use of strategic discourse to propose traditional behavior to women, which are constantly portrayed as the ones responsible for the success of their relationships; b) the authors establish an intimate relationship with the readers as a strategy to gain readers' trust and approval; c) the magazines studied, in general, are persuasive and strategic in their discourse to attract more readers and to propose an improvement in relationships overall; and that d) the authors expose their ideas as being more experienced and having more knowledge than the readers, as if they were sharing their feminine secrets with the readers. The present study, may, therefore, be seen as an initial step towards the understanding of multimodal reading in websites and readers' awareness of the bidirectional relation between language and context.
A Análise Crítica do Discurso tem como objeto de pesquisa diferentes tipos de textos midiáticos, dando ênfase à relação entre língua e contexto social. Este estudo tem como objetivo investigar aspectos verbais e visuais de artigos retirados de websites de revistas femininas do Brasil (Nova) e dos Estados Unidos (Cosmopolitan). Os artigos foram selecionados seguindo características específicas: 1) as referências verbais do título poderiam mencionar mulher e homem direta ou indiretamente, mas mencioná-los ou mencionar o relacionamento entre eles; 2) as imagens apresentadas em cada artigo poderiam representar os corpos dos participantes em parte ou na sua totalidade, conquanto que o leitor pudesse identificar os participantes como "homem" ou "mulher"; 3) os artigos foram retirados das seções "Sex and Love" e "Sexo e Amor" dos websites das revistas, pois estas seções se referem ao relacionamento entre homens e mulheres, sendo estes solteiros ou não. Os artigos analisados têm como base teórica a Análise Crítica do Discurso, a Linguística Sistêmico Funcional, Gramática Visual e estudos de gênero. A conclusão sugere que a) os websites das revistas femininas fazem uso de linguagem estratégica para propor um comportamento tradicional às mulheres, que são constantemente representadas como as responsáveis pelo sucesso de seus relacionamentos; b) os autores estabelecem uma relação íntima com os leitores como uma estratégia para ganhar a confiança e ser aprovados por eles; c) as revistas estudadas, em geral, são persuasivas em seus discursos para atrair mais leitores e para propor um melhoramento nos relacionamentos em geral; e que d) os autores expõem suas ideias como sendo mais experientes e sábios do que os leitores, como se estivessem compartilhando segredos femininos. O presente estudo, portanto, pode ser caracterizado como um passo inicial para o entendimento da leitura multimodal em websites, e também para uma conscientização da relação entre língua e contexto.

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Johnson, Katherine A. "Portrait of a lady : attitudes toward women in men's lifestyle magazines." Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1345343.

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This study measures the attitudes men and women form toward women from a sample of feature articles and interviews in four men's lifestyle magazines (Maxim, Stuff Esquire and GQ) from the years 2002-2004. Attitudes were measured with a 15-item semantic differential analysis. Across all four magazines, attitudes toward the women were positive, active, and impotent. A MANCOVA tested the hypotheses that attitudes would vary by magazine title, gender, and sexism scores as measured by the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI). Magazine title was the only significant main effect, showing that women featured in Stuff magazine received the most negative ratings on all three semantic differential scales. Gender and ASI score did not significantly affect individual attitudes.
Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services

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Hamilton, Emily A. "Magazines targeting young men men's objectification of and attitudes toward women /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5604.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on July 27, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.

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McPherson, Marian. "Framing of African-American Women in Mainstream and Black Women's Magazines." Thesis, University of Missouri - Columbia, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13850741.

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For decades, there has been a concern with the negative framing of black women in the media. Historically, black women are placed into four stereotypical frames: The Mammy, The Jezebel, The Sapphire and The Matriarch. However, in 2008, a new image of black women arose through Michelle Obama. She was well rounded — beautiful, intelligent, insightful, humorous, strong, yet soft all at the same time. This study seeks to understand the changes in the framing of black women since Michelle Obama’s time as First Lady.

More specifically, this study focuses on the medium of magazine journalism, which seems to be largely ignored in the realm of media studies. Thirty articles from a mainstream (Glamour) and a black women’s magazine (Essence) were analyzed for the presence of historical frames along with the emergence of new ones. The study employs the qualitative method of textual analysis as a way to determine frames and their meanings through a grounded theory approach.

The primary outcomes of this study are a greater understanding of how historical frames still affect how magazines, mainstream and black, frame black women, and the revealing of new frames that depart from those historical representations. Furthermore, this study will be used as a foundation for editors, writers, educators and students alike, to create more authentic and multifaceted stories about black women.

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Brush, Philippa. "This feminine invasion, women and the workplace in Canadian magazines, 1900-1930." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0032/NQ46811.pdf.

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Gordon, Alison. "(Re)constructing the discourse of disease women's magazines' mediation of medicine /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ39195.pdf.

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Wade, Amanda N. "A content analysis of black female athletes and white female athletes in sports magazines /." Online version of thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/6974.

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Bernardon, Maura. "Women in business contexts represented in the magazines Secretária Executiva and Mulher Executiva." Florianópolis, SC, 2005. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/102079.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente.
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Esta dissertação está baseada na Análise Crítica do discurso (ACD), com seus três níveis interdependentes de análise: texto, prática discursiva e prática social, na Lingüística Sistêmica-Funcional, nos estudos de gêneros e de multimodalidade. O discurso é investigado em duas revistas brasileiras dedicadas a secretárias e mulheres executivas, Secretária Executiva e Mulher Executiva, com foco nas identidades sociais reveladas em um contexto empresarial. A análise léxico-gramatical de seis editoriais mostrou padrões de experiências relacionados principalmente a processos materiais, mentais e relacionais, revelando as práticas sociais naquele contexto. Além disso, realizou-se uma análise em três capas das revistas, aplicando-se uma gramática para imagens, complementando-se assim a investigação. Os resultados sugerem que no contexto profissional descrito nas revistas: i) o mundo da mulher está ligado à esfera privada e pública; ii) os editoriais são escritos para um público feminino e podem ser classificados como textos exortativos e como um discurso de auto-ajuda; e finalmente iii) há traços de mudanças sociais com respeito à identidade social da mulher executiva brasileira. O panorama delineado acima apresenta a tentativa deste estudo em dar continuidade à complexa linha de pesquisa que considera a linguagem e o contexto social. Este estudo também pode favorecer aspectos quanto à conscientização e a tomada de posição em relação ao uso da linguagem real e sua função social, o que torna as práticas educacionais mais significativas. This thesis is based on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), with its three interdependent levels of analysis: text, discourse practice, and social practice, Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), gender studies and modality. In this study, discourse is investigated in two Brazilian magazines dedicated to secretaries and executive women, Secretária Executiva and Mulher Executiva, examining social identities in a business context. The lexicogrammatical analysis in the six editorials showed patterns of women's experience related mainly to material, mental and relational processes revealing social practices in that context. Moreover, the analysis of three covers of the magazines applying a grammar of visual design complemented the investigation. The results suggest that, in the professional context portrayed in the magazines, i) women's world is connected to the private and public sphere and; ii) the editorials are written to a feminine business public, can be classified as hortatory texts and self-help discourse; and finally iii) there are traces of changes in respect to Brazilian executive women's identities. The panorama outlined above shows the attempt of this study to further investigate the complexity of research that considers language and social context. This study may also contribute to provide awareness and attitudes in relation to language use and its social function, which could make our educational practices more significant.

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Gaucher, Brigette. "Fit for whom? : beauty as defined by two women's fitness magazines /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1426058.

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Altinoz, Vuslat Devrim. "The Ottoman Women's Movement: Women's Press, Journals, Magazines and Newspapers from 1875 to 1923." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2003. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?miami1060799831.

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Hutchinson, Denise. "Hello boys : listening to the voices of young women making sense of men's magazines." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.437687.

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Roberts, Chadwick Lee. "Consuming Liberation: Playgirl and the Strategic Rhetoric of Sex Magazines for Women 1972-1985." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1302714550.

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Italia, Iona. "Philosophers, knights-errant, coquettes and old maids : gender and literary self-consciousness in the eighteenth-century periodical (1690-1765)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343363.

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Dunn, Maurianne. "Time Out for Women Magazine: A New Magazine Prospectus Informed by a Historical Review and Qualitative Study on the Media Uses of Mormon Women." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2962.

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This project uses a qualitative research approach to understanding Mormon women's uses and gratifications of magazines. The first study provides a retrospective look at the uses and gratifications of readers of the Relief Society Magazine (1915–1970) in order to understand where media targeted to Mormon women has been. Through interviews, focus groups and questionnaires, the study finds the main reasons Mormon women read the Relief Society Magazine was to provide (a) a handbook for daily life, (b) a community, (c) intellectual stimulation, (d) an aspirational ideal, and (e) an escape from daily life. When the magazine ceased publication, readers felt a sense of loss and recognized a need to move on. The second study researches Mormon women's current uses and gratifications of media, with a focus on magazine use. Through focus groups and questionnaires, the main uses and gratifications of current media among Mormon women include (a) interaction, (b) cognition, (c) and diversion. Mormon women's media use is also influenced by warnings from others about the dangers of particular media or too much media use. This project then presents the concept and design for a new magazine targeted to Mormon women and seeks to fulfill the needs and gratifications found in the research discussed here.

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Shrader, Melissa. "PERCEIVED INFLUENCE OF THE PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN IN BEAUTY AND FASHION MAGAZINES ON BODY IMAGE." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4156.

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This investigation examines how women perceive that magazines influence the body image of self and others. Seventeen audio-taped in-depth interviews were conducted with college women who read beauty, fashion, and grooming magazines frequently. These interviews were transcribed, coded, and analyzed and the data developed into topics of importance. The findings indicated that informants perceived other women were influenced more by images of women in the media than they themselves were influenced. However, informants did not advocate behavior changes for others or hold pro-censorship attitudes. Other findings include favorable perceptions of magazines utilizing larger sized fashion models, negative attitudes towards advertising, and a reverse third-person effect when the 'other' is male. These findings are consistent with existing research on the third-person effect.
M.A.
Nicholson School of Communication
Sciences
Communication MA

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Caroline, Jansson, and Sahlin Li. "Fair-skinned and Happy housewives : How women are portrayed in advertisements in Mexican fashion magazines." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-29494.

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Advertising has a powerful role in today’s society, especially since we are constantly surrounded by it. Advertisement does not only encourage people to make decisions about their purchases but has a big impact on the culture (Lin & Yeh, 2009; Lindner, 2004). Hence, it is a big factor of creating norms and ideas of what is feminine and masculine; thus affecting the perception on gender within societies. Unfortunate is however that to be able to cut through the enormous advertising clutter that people are exposed to daily, advertisers tend to use sexual content and portrayals as tactic, leading to an obscure ideal (Dahl, Segupta & Vohs, 2009; Cortese, 2008; Connell & Pearse, 2015; Butler & Almqvist, 2007). This quantitative and qualitative study examines from a Gender and Feminist theory perspective how women are portrayed sexually and stereotypically in advertisements within Mexican fashion magazines. The advertisements found within the seven biggest fashion magazines in Mexico are being studied both through a quantitative content analyse and qualitative text analyse using a semiotic approach. The result of the study shows that the content of advertisements in Mexican magazines frequently portray females in a sexualised and stereotypical way. Within our qualitative result six different stereotypes could be found. Furthermore, our quantitative result shows that the most commonly portrayed female within the advertisements are White. Henceforth, our result shows that a female ideal where the most crucial attributes are: to be sexy, beautiful, obtain an attractive appearance and to be White.

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Ford, Jennifer. "Fashion Advertising, Men’s Magazines, and Sex in Advertising: A Critical-Interpretive Study." Scholar Commons, 2008. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/246.

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This study examines sexualized portrayals of women in fashion advertising found in metro-sexual men's magazines as visual rhetoric. Historically, studies on sexual images of women in advertising have focused on content analyses of these images and how they affect women. This study asks how sexualized imagery of women functions rhetorically as part of a branding message designed to sell products. The exemplar advertisements were chosen specifically for their sexual imagery from an earlier study by the researcher on sexual images of women in fashion advertisements found in men's magazines. The messages interpreted within the visuals of this study reveal a current slice of history in terms of gender and sexuality. In the case of this study the constructed "ideal" heteronormative view of gender, masculinity, femininity, and sexuality are what are for sale; they are the merchandise to be purchased. Women are present in the exemplar ads as an accessory to prove and support heterosexual masculinity through sex, as if to ward off any ideas that metro-sexual men may be anything but heterosexual. Though we cannot generalize beyond these five magazine ads, we can think of the exemplar ads as a small sample of contemporary culture. The narratives of these ads suggest that man continues to be the prevailing figure in terms of importance and power relative to woman, who is subordinate to man. This thesis supports prior research on women in advertising where men are more important than women, and the ads in this thesis continue to define masculinity and femininity in classic patriarchal and heterosexual terms. However, this thesis adds important critical-interpretative work through visual rhetorical analysis on advertising in men's metro-sexual magazines to a body of research that includes very little of such work.

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Gualtieri, Marie. "I'm every woman college women's perceptions of "real women" in print advertisements." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/560.

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In the American capitalist society, the media is often an agent used to perpetuate ideals and to inform consumers of products that they can purchase by using multiple advertising techniques. In an attempt to counter the thin body ideal for women, some companies have begun advertising their products by using plus size models, such as the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty. The purpose of this research is to examine college women's perceptions of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, an advertising campaign whose goal is to reverse the stereotypical body ideal for women and broaden the definition of beauty. Some sociologists have criticized Dove for sending conflicting messages. This study is the first that focuses on women's perceptions about this potential conflict. Through the use of both quantitative and qualitative methods, this study examined if, how, and when women changed their initial perceptions toward the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty based on two separate scenarios brought to their attention. This is important because the findings suggest how consumers can change their perceptions regarding a company, in this case one that is a part of a multi-million dollar parent company, based on how a company advertises its products.
B.S.
Bachelors
Sciences
Sociology

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Unyawong, Pornkamon. "A comparative study of attractiveness types in advertisements of women's magazines between United States and Thailand." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2979.

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The study determined how Thai and U.S. advertisements reflected women's attractiveness. Advertisements from the Thai and U.S. editions of Elle and Cosmopolitan magazines from January 2005 to January 2006 were analyzed using the content analysis method. The author created a code book with definitions of all categories to be used as guidelines for the analysis, an itemized code sheet, and training criteria. Two coders who were proficient in both Thai and English collected the data for the study. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was utilized as a tool to analyze the data gathered. Results indicated that there were both similarities and differences in the specifics, but what remained constant is the use of beautiful women to sell clothing and beauty products. The findings suggest that Thai and U.S. advertisers should apply the similiarities found in the study in their cross-cultural advertising campaigns. In addition, advertisers should be aware of differences and create advertisements that reflect attractiveness values of each culture.

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Hyla, Kathryn A. "The relationship between reading beauty and fashion magazines and the use of pathogenic dieting methods among college females /." View online, 2003. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131144297.pdf.

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Ricle, Mayorga Patricia. "Ethnic Media and Identity Construction: Content Analysis of the Visual Portrayals of Women in Latina and Glamour Magazines." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04232007-125058/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007.
Title from file title page. Jaye Atkinson, committee chair; Merrill Morris, Mary Ann Romski, Yuki Fujioka, committee members. Electronic text (127 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Nov. 5, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-123).

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Loong, Yvonne Chi Wan. "Construction of femininity : contemporary gender discourse of international women's magazines in Hong Kong (1997-2002) /." access abstract and table of contents access full-text, 2006. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ezdb/thesis.pl?phd-en-b21471551a.pdf.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2006.
"Submitted to Department of English and Communication in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy" Includes bibliographical references (leaves 249-263)

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Irvine, Dean J. (Dean Jay). "Little histories : modernist and leftist women poets and magazine editors in Canada, 1926-56." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=37900.

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This study incorporates archival and historical research on women poets and editors and their roles in the production of modernist and/or leftist little-magazine cultures in Canada. Where the first three chapters investigate women poets who were also magazine editors and/or members of magazine groups, the fourth chapter takes account of women magazine editors who were not themselves poets. Within this framework, the dissertation relates women's editorial work and poetry to a series of crises and transitions in Canada's leftist and modernist little-magazine cultures between 1926 and 1956. This historical pattern of crisis and transition pertains at once to the poetry of Dorothy Livesay, Anne Marriott, P. K. Page, and Miriam Waddington and to the little-magazine groups in which they and other women were active as editors and/or contributing members. Chapter 1 deals with Livesay's editorial activities and poetry in the context of two magazines of the cultural left, Masses and New Frontier, between 1932 and 1937. Chapter 2 concerns Livesay, Marriott, their involvement in poetry groups in Victoria and Vancouver, and their publications in Contemporary Verse and Canadian Poetry Magazine, between 1935 and 1956. Chapter 3 addresses the poetry of Page and Waddington published in Preview and First Statement from 1942 to 1945, their poetry appearing in Contemporary Verse from 1941 to 1952--53, and their editorial activities in and/or relationships to these Montreal and Victoria - Vancouver magazine groups between 1941 and 1956. Chapter 4 documents the histories of some often forgotten women who edited modernist or leftist little magazines in Canada between 1926 and 1956. These core chapters are prefaced and concluded by histories of the antecedents to and descendants of Canadian modernist and leftist magazine cultures.

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Markova, Svetlana V. "Body images in magazines a cross-cultural investigation of media effects in Russian and U.S. young women /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/6772.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.
Thesis research directed by: Journalism. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Put, Ella. ""They think we're stupid" : A study of the perceptions and attitudes of young women towards the objectification and sexualisation of women in women's magazines." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-37262.

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Poon, Jiawen. "Assimilation as an impact of globalization a comparative study of women's magazines in Singapore and the United States /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1588778911&sid=10&Fmt=2&clientId=39334&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (M.A.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2008.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 27, 2009) Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Thesis adviser: Hong, Junhao, Cassata, Mary B. Includes bibliographical references.

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Karlsson, Niquita. "LADY TALK : A critical discourse analysis of the representation of women over 50 in fashion and lifestyle magazines." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-41451.

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The complex concept of the ageing woman must be viewed in relation to both what it means to be a woman and what it means to age. Both women and the elderly are discriminated against in different respects; therefore it could be argued that the ageing woman is discriminated against in a double sense. This study investigates how women over the age of 50 are portrayed linguistically in fashion and lifestyle magazines with the aim to reveal the underlying attitudes as well as social and cultural ideologies regarding the topic today. Based on Wodak (2001), I employed critical discourse analysis (CDA) methodology, with a particular focus on terms of address and attributes identified in selected fashion and lifestyle magazines. The findings revealed that although the women were addressed mainly in terms of their professional titles, the emphasis was put on them as ageing women by a continuous mentioning of their age, their past and physical consequences from the process of ageing. Further, personality traits and emotional and physical attributes were evaluated in terms of negative and positive associations, revealing positive attitudes (e.g. happy, curious, experienced) regarding emotions and personality traits, but negative associations (e.g. weight gain, grey hair, old) in relation to their ageing bodies and their appearances.

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Phillips, Stephanie. "The overrepresentation of women in 'common' psychiatric diagnoses : do women's magazines play a role in marketing psychiatric explanations?" Thesis, University of East London, 2015. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/4546/.

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This study is concerned with the over-representation of women in common psychiatric diagnoses and the role played by the mass media in promoting medicalized explanations of distress in women. In order to investigate this, the current study examines the various constructions of distress used in the women’s magazine ‘Take a Break’. This magazine was chosen because of its popularity and because the readership reflects those women who are demographically most over-represented in common psychiatric diagnoses. In order to investigate the constructions of distress used in the magazine, the study draws on discursive psychology and critical discourse analysis to examine how particular constructions of distress are employed and to what effect. The key constructions identified in the data were ‘distress as a normative response’, ‘distress as a biomedical condition’ and ‘distress as a matter of personal responsibility’. The implications of each of these representations of distress are explicitly reflected upon with reference to the literature, and recommendations for clinical practice and further research are made in light of the findings.

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Jacobson, Jennifer Cardall. "Analysis of Weight-Related Advertisements and Nutrition Articles in Popular Women's Magazines." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2003. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd312.pdf.

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Louw, Nicolette. "Grace and The townships h Housewife : excavating South African Black women's magazines from the 1960s." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4064.

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Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Grace and The Townships Housewife, two black women’s magazines published in South Africa between 1964 and 1969, have slipped into obscurity. This thesis aims to write them back into the history of the black press, black journalism and literature in South Africa. The study is significant in that no research has as yet been conducted on these two magazines. The first chapter excavates Grace and The Townships Housewife from obscurity by providing information on the magazines’ publication, staff, editors, content, target audience and writers. A salient characteristic of both magazines’ content that the study discusses is the ambiguous attitude of readers and writers towards modernity and tradition (and the negotiation of new identities) as they move from the country to the city. Some readers’ embrace and others’ rejection of early signs of feminism and womanism in the magazines also display this ambiguous attitude. The chapter foregrounds the various ambiguities and often colliding voices that infuse much of the magazines’ content. The absence of explicit reference to apartheid in Grace’s and The Townships Housewife’s content provides another focal point of this chapter and is discussed in relation to the concepts of ‘minstrelsy’ and ‘mimicry’. Considering specifically the position of the black woman in apartheid South Africa, the second chapter compares the representation of white women in South African white women’s magazines Die Huisgenoot, Sarie Marais and Fair Lady to the way in which black women are represented in Grace and The Townships Housewife in the 1960s. The role of the latter two magazines in positively representing black women during apartheid South Africa, and thus standing in direct opposition to the identities ascribed to black people in colonial and apartheid ideology, is a primary focus of this chapter. The representation of black women in the 1960s is elaborated on in the next chapter which explores the shift in the representation of black women from Drum magazine (during its heyday in the 1950s), with its predominantly male staff, to the representation of black women in Grace and The Townships Housewife (in the 1960s), with their predominantly female staff. I hypothesise on the possible agencies at work within this shift in women’s representation. Despite the magazines’ adherence at times to white standards of beauty (an aspect which the thesis engages with throughout), the ‘creation’ of black women within the pages of Grace and The Townships Housewife (as the previous two chapters articulate), often resonates with Black Consciousness’s philosophy of black pride. This last chapter explores the possible connection between Grace and The Townships Housewife, on the one hand, and the early beginnings of an emergent black consciousness in South Africa in the late 1960s, on the other hand. It also discusses the sexism associated with black consciousness philosophy in relation to these two magazines, but the focus falls on how black female readers of Grace and The Townships Housewife negotiate imposed ‘female identities’ (for example, mother, housewife and supporter) towards greater agency.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Grace en The Townships Housewife, twee tydskrifte gemik op swart vroue en wat in Suid-Afrika gepubliseer is tussen 1964 en 1969, is vandag onbekend. Die doel van dié tesis is om hierdie twee tydskrifte terug te skryf in die geskiedenis van swart joernalistiek en literatuur in Suid-Afrika. Dit is ’n waardevolle studie aangesien geen navorsing oor hierdie twee tydskrifte nog gedoen is nie. Dit is ook ’n ingewikkelde proses wat gepaard gaan met baie spekulasie, aangesien dit alreeds te lank gevat het vir hierdie tydskrifte om ontdek te word – dit is nie meer moontlik om die meeste van die bydraers tot hierdie twee tydskrifte op te spoor nie. Die eerste hoofstuk ‘grawe’ Grace en The Townships Housewife as t’ ware weer ‘op’ deur inligting te voorsien oor hierdie tydskrifte se uitgewers, personeel, redaktrises, inhoud, teikengroepe en skrywers. Die dubbelsinnige houdings wat lesers in die tydskrifte toon teenoor tradisie en moderniteit soos wat hulle beweeg van plattelandse gebiede na stedelike gebiede, is kenmerkend van hierdie tydskrifte en word in hierdie hoofstuk bespreek. Hierdie dubbelsinnigheid word ook weerspieël in lesers en skrywers se ambivalente houdinge teenoor die bemagtiging van vroue. Die verskeie dubbelsinnighede en dikwels botsende stemme in meeste van die twee tydskrifte se inhoud is ’n belangrike punt wat hierdie tesis uitlig. Die afwesigheid van direkte verwysings na apartheid in beide tydskrifte is nog ’n kenmerkende eienskap van die tydskrifte wat in hierdie hoofstuk ondersoek word. Met die fokus op die posisie van die swart vrou in apartheid Suid-Afrika, vergelyk die tweede hoofstuk die voorstelling van wit vroue in Suid-Afrikaanse wit vrouetydskrifte (Die Huisgenoot, Sarie Marais en Fair Lady) met dié van swart vroue in Grace en The Townships Housewife in die 1960s. ’n Primêre fokus van hierdie hoofstuk is die rol wat Grace en The Townships Housewife speel in die positiewe voorstelling van swart vroue tydens apartheid, in direkte kontras tot die voorstellinge van swart vroue in apartheid ideologie. Die volgende hoofstuk brei verder uit op die voorstelling van die swart vrou in die 1960s: hier word gekyk na die skuif wat plaasvind in die voorstelling van swart vroue van die Drum-tydskrif in die 1950s met sy hoofsaaklik manlike personeel, na die voorstelling van swart vroue in 1960s Grace en The Townships Housewife, met hoofsaaklik vroulike personeel. Die moontlike faktore verantwoordelik vir so ’n verandering in voorstelling word oorweeg. Alhoewel die inhoud van Grace en The Townships Housewife gereeld ‘wit’ standaarde van skoonheid ondersteun, toon die voorstelling van swart vroue in hierdie twee tydskrifte ook dikwels ooreenkomste met swart bewustheid filosofie se fokus op swart trots. Hierdie laaste hoofstuk ondersoek die moontlike verbintenis tussen Grace en The Townships Housewife, aan die een kant, en die vroeë begin van swart bewustheid in Suid-Afrika in die laat sestigerjare. Die dikwels seksistiese houdinge wat met swart bewustheid filosofie geassosieer word, word in hierdie hoofstuk bespreek aan die hand van voorbeelde uit Grace en The Townships Housewife. Dit is egter nie die fokus van hierdie studie nie: die fokus val op hoe swart vroue lesers van Grace en The Townships Housewife opgelegde rolle van moederskap, huisvrou en ondersteuners stuur tot posisies van groter mag.

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Chew, Wendy Poh Yoke. "Consuming femininity : nation-state, gender and Singaporean Chinese women." University of Western Australia. School of Humanities, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0135.

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My research seeks to understand ways in which English-educated Chinese women in cosmopolitan Singapore bolstered their identity while living under the influences of Confucian values, patriarchal nation-building and racial concerns. My thesis examines women who have themselves been lost in translation when they were co-opted into the creation of a viable state after 1965. Often women are treated as adjuncts in the patriarchal state, particularly since issues of gender are not treated with the equality they deserve in the neo-Confucian discourse. This thesis takes an unconventional approach to how women have been viewed by utilizing primary sources including Her World and Female magazines from the 1960s and 1990s, and subsequent material from the blogosphere. I analyze images of women in these magazines to gain an understanding of how notions of gender and communitarianism/race intersect. By looking at government-sponsored advertising, my work also investigates the kind of messages the state was sending out to these women readers. My examination of government-sponsored advertisements, in tandem with the existing mainstream consumer advertising directed at women provides therefore a unique historical perspective in understanding the kinds of pressures Singaporean women have faced. Blogging itself is used as a counterpoint to show how new spaces have opened up for those who have felt constricted in certain ways by the authorities, women included. It would be fair to say that women?s magazines and blogging have served as ways for women to bolster their self worth, despite the counter-argument that some highly idealized and unhealthy images of women are purveyed. The main target group of glossy women?s magazines is English-educated women readers who are, by virtue of the Singapore?s demographics, mostly Chinese.

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Nicely, Stacey. "Media framing of female athletes and women's sports in selected sports magazines." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11152007-112759/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007.
Title from file title page. Merrill Morris, committee chair; Arla Bernstein, Jaynette Atkinson, committee members. Electronic text (95 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Feb. 5, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-90).

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Ritchie, Rachel Clare. "The housewife and the modern : the home and appearance in women's magazines, 1954-1969." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-housewife-and-the-modern-the-home-and-appearance-in-womens-magazines-1954--1969(f46704f8-d0e7-4f78-a963-b93e15583c55).html.

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In 1957 a number of women's organizations were involved in planning a government-sponsored Festival of Women - an event that indicates contemporary awareness of and interest in the changing position of women. This study is similarly concerned with the position of women in the 1950s and 60s, relating constructions of the 'modern' woman in women's magazines to post-war developments, such as increasing levels of consumption and changing leisure patterns. There are two major themes in the thesis: the housewife and the modern. The study illustrates the centrality of 'the housewife' while accentuating the breadth and complexity of post-1945 women's roles and identities, with a focus on two sites pivotal to constructions of femininity in women's magazines: the home and appearance. The study also explores how women's magazines shaped the modern, emphasizing the range of ways in which this notion was constructed and understood. The concept of social capital is used to examine the significance of the modern, looking at why it was so important and its connection with ideas of exclusion and belonging.The study looks at two magazines. Home and Country was the magazine of the National Federation of Women's Institutes, and hence it targeted rural women. Woman's Outlook, on the other hand, was the Women's Co-operative Guild magazine, aimed at working-class Guild members. Through comparisons between the two and with Woman, a mass-circulation weekly magazine, the thesis demonstrates that their respective rural and Co-operative identities were distinctive features that contrast with the urban and mass consumption viewpoints evident in other titles. These rural and Co-operative identities heavily influenced the perspectives of the organizational magazines and created alternative visions of the modern. The relationship of these features to post-war British modernity has received little attention, with historians' focus on the urban and the individual consumer positioning the countryside and the Co-operative movement as antithetical to the modern. However, this study reveals that rural and Co-operative interpretations of the modern enhance and develop understandings of key themes in 1950s and 60s British history such as national identity, consumer culture, generation and age. The thesis situates Home and Country and Woman's Outlook within broader social and cultural networks and shows the extent to which women's magazines operated as cultural intermediaries. The study also engages with a number of intersecting bodies of literature, such as revisionist accounts of domesticity and recent work on women's organizations, and contributes to various discussions including housing in post-war Britain and feminist analyses of fashion and beauty. This multifaceted investigation generates new insights into both the housewife and the modern, insights which offer a more complex and nuanced account of 1950s and 60s Britain and the position of women.

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Elliott, Rebecca. "From Lip Smackers to Wrinkle Cream: Priming the Next Generation of Consuming Women." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20230.

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The purpose of this research was to determine if there is a model of ideal femininity communicated through advertising in girls’ and women’s magazines. To assess the representations of women in magazine advertisements, a content analysis of advertisements appearing in three top-selling, demographically-defined women’s magazines (Girls’ Life, Seventeen, and Cosmopolitan) was conducted. Using feminist theory and hegemony theory as critical lenses, advertisements were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. Each advertisement was assessed using five criteria: physical characteristics, social context, personality and attitude, and subtext. Using this data to establish the dominant representations of women, it was determined that there is a model of ideal femininity which is developed through establishing common ideals shared by all three magazines and by gradually introducing new ideals which correspond to shifts in real-world interests and experiences of women. It was concluded that a model of ideal femininity is developed through advertising in girls’ and women’s magazines, this model is used as a guide to direct girls and women towards specific ideal preferences, attitudes and behaviours, and this model continues to emphasise traditional cultural values and gender ideals which are not necessarily reflective of the range of roles women assume in today’s society.

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Bair, Carrie. "Relations Among Media, Eating Pathology and Body Dissatisfaction in College Women." VCU Scholars Compass, 2011. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2359.

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Research has identified a relation between exposure to thin-ideal magazine and television media images and eating disorder pathology. However, few studies have examined the potential influence of Internet media on eating disorder behaviors and attitudes. This study investigated the associations among appearance-orientated media exposure, body dissatisfaction, eating pathology and thin-ideal internalization in a sample of 421 female undergraduate students. Results indicate that undergraduate women spend significantly more time viewing appearance-oriented sources online, rather than reading appearance-orientated magazines. Appearance-oriented Internet consumption was also more strongly associated with eating disorder pathology than was use of other media (television and magazines). Relations between appearance-orientated media use (all types) and body dissatisfaction was mediated by thin-ideal internalization. These findings are consistent with those of previous research, and highlight the vulnerability individuals high in thin-ideal internalization might have following media exposure. They also suggest that Internet media might be an important topic to include in eating disorders prevention and treatment.

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Svensson, Patricia. "When girls read : A study about women and lifestyle media in the Nordic region." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för hälsa och välfärd, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-40560.

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This study sought for the importance and influence of visual text in Lifestyle magazines. The aim was to see the importance of visual text for middle-aged women as well as for the magazines. It also aimed to understand how the reading of these magazines can affect women´s daily life. In the search for these six lifestyle magazines; three Swedish, two Finnish and one Danish, were analysed. There were further six interviews conducted were the Swedish magazines also were shown. What is found is the similarities the magazines pose even though being from different countries. There are some patterns in the visuality that consists. What seemed to be most differently between the magazines was the depiction of women. In the Swedish magazines all women were smiling but for men it seemed optional. The Danish magazine followed this pattern to some extent while the Finnish magazines had full segments of women without even a trace of smile. The six women interviewed all had their reasons for reading lifestyle magazines. Mostly it was to pass time when needed. Although, when reading for fun there had to be some sort of interest in the text or subject to be read. Most important though was that there had to exist recognizability. The women wanted to relate and recognize themselves in the text. This way a meaning was ascribed to the reading. Furthermore, most of them did not reflect on how women were depicted. Still though, when asked all women could give an opinion on how the women in the magazines looked. What was interesting then was that they gave the same description only with different words.

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Collier-Green, Janae'. "Skin Tone, Age, and Body Image Representation in Health and Beauty Advertisements in Women’s Health Magazines." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin149580113856066.

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Dawson, Susan Elaine. "A Blueprint for Cold War Citizenship: Upper Class Women in the U.S. Foreign Policy, 1945-1963." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1252438053.

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Watson, Tanya E. "Hungarian Representations of Motherhood and Childlessness: An Analysis of Post-Communist Developments with a Focus on Nök Lapja Magazine." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30654.

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In this dissertation, I examine the constructions, maintenance, and resistance to dominant discourses concerning motherhood and non-motherhood in contemporary Hungary, using the popular Hungarian women’s magazine Nők Lapja as my key illustrative example. I strive to illuminate how gendered discourses, bio-power, history, and geo-politics are implicated not only in the construction of nationhood but also in defining women’s roles in nation-building. I hope to contribute to research that helps to better understand women’s contemporary social roles in Hungary, and the power relations that construct them. I argue that ideas regarding motherhood and non-motherhood in Hungary are often bound up in ideas concerning who should, or should not, have children, and why, and I explore in detail how these ideas have formed through the history of the nation. My analysis reveals different sites of power—focusing on policy and print media—that seek to determine women’s procreative decisions. I argue that, under various regimes, women’s procreative choices have consistently been systemically constrained, and framed as key to the nation’s success—or failure. Concerning Nők Lapja magazine, my research reveals that it both supports and resists traditional gender roles, at times contributing to discourses that naturalize childbearing and motherhood (also defining for readers whose motherhood is deemed desirable), but at other times disputing such ideas and redefining conceptions of womanhood to include women without children. Although ultimately the magazine pathologizes, disbelieves and negates the choice to be childless, Nők Lapja does resist and redefine limited definitions of womanhood and motherhood by carving out a small space for discussions of childlessness, and also by challenging conceptions of singletons as necessarily lonely and mothers as necessarily better if they stay at home.

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Martinez, Charlotte M. "Representations of Femininity: A Content Analysis of the Adolescent Christian Magazines Brio and Brio and Beyond and Their Mainstream Counterpart Seventeen." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1344049647.

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Peterson, Ashley Shiels. "Standing at the crossroads of progress and pessimism: HIV/AIDS coverage in African American magazines and its relevance for female readers." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2009. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/258.

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African American women's HIV incidence rates are disproportionately higher than other population groups in the United States. Social cognitive theory concepts were used to perform a quantitative content analysis of the magazines Essence, Ebony, and Jet, which are sources of health information and vicarious learning, to evaluate the quality of the HIV/AIDS prevention messages for 2000 to 2006. The data reveal some positive reflection of health messages, but many articles focus more on dramatic risk factors and less on providing useful information and proposed behaviors for African American women. Environmental risks and gender-specific risks are not emphasized. The public health community should use the media messages that are already present to build a media advocacy campaign that provides more comprehensive information and bring about social change.

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Ogwude, Haadiza N. "Popular Nigerian Women's Magazines and Discourses of Femininity: A Textual Analysis of Today's Woman, Genevieve, and Exquisite." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou161643816575918.

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McKay, Kali, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Gertrude Stein and her audience : small presses, little magazines, and the reconfiguration of modern authorship." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of English, c2010, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/2479.

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This thesis examines the publishing career of Gertrude Stein, an American expatriate writer whose experimental style left her largely unpublished throughout much of her career. Stein’s various attempts at dissemination illustrate the importance she placed on being paid for her work and highlight the paradoxical relationship between Stein and her audience. This study shows that there was an intimate relationship between literary modernism and mainstream culture as demonstrated by Stein’s need for the public recognition and financial gains by which success had long been measured. Stein’s attempt to embrace the definition of the author as a professional who earned a living through writing is indicative of the developments in art throughout the first decades of the twentieth century, and it problematizes modern authorship by reemphasizing the importance of commercial success to artists previously believed to have been indifferent to the reaction of their audience.
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Åkerlund, Josefine. "Experiences of Social Inequalities Related to Skin Colour Enhaced by Fashion Magazines in South Africa : A case study on how women in South Africa identify themselves in relation to the representation of race in South African fashion magazines." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-19485.

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This study was carried out during the spring of 2013 in Cape Town, South Africa with a Minor Field Study (MFS) scholarship funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). South Africa is a country with a complex society due to the still recent history of Apartheid. South Africa faces great challenges with the gap between rich and poor, high unemployment and deep expertise gaps between the white minority and the historically disadvantaged coloureds and black majority. As a result the contemporary situation is extensive segregation and difficulties for the multicultural population to conduct a common cultural identity. The aim of this study was to find out how four South African issues of international fashion magazines deals with the representation of black, white and coloured people. Furthermore, to find out how South African women from socially diverse areas experience and perceive this representation. Quantitative content analysis, connotative and denotative picture analysis and the conduction of interviews was made in order to reach a result. Consequently, it turned out that the investigated magazines do not present a fair and equal representation of the South African society, hence highly over representing the white minority in each magazine. Additionally, South African women do not describe the fashion magazines as presenting an equal representation of race, neither that a reality based ideal is being conveyed.

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Laurell, Johanna. "”SOLO har fått en lillasyster!” : - En undersökning om hur formen och innehållet skiljer sig mellan tidningarna Solo och Solo G." Thesis, Uppsala University, Media and Communication, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7503.

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Title: “Solo has got a little sister! – A study how the form and content differ between the magazines Solo and Solo G

(Solo har fått en lillasyster! – En studie om hur formen och innehållet skiljer sig emellan tidningarna Solo och Solo G)

Number of pages: 37 pages

Author: Johanna Laurell

Tutor: Göran Svensson

Course: Media and communication studies C

Period: Autumn term 2005

University: Division of Media and Communication, Departement of Information Science, Uppsala University.

Pupose/Aim: This essay aims to investigate how the form and content in the magazine Solo G, which direct to a younger target group, differ from the magazine Solo which directs to an older target group. In this analyse of form and content have I also chose to study how the magazine present femininity and how this affect the female identity.

Material/Method: The material consists of 4 magazines from Solo and Solo G during 2005. A qualitative text analysis has then been used as a method of analysing the material.

Main results: Solo G focuses a lot more on celebrities than Solo. Solo G uses the celebrities as role models to the youth to look up to. There is also a difference how the magazines talk to their readers. Solo directs to their readers and they try to analyse their behaviour. Solo G focuses on celebrities and tells to their readers to look as them and to behave like they behave. Both magazines are mainly about female beauty, sex and how women should loose weight.

Keywords: Women magazines, identity, identification, and femininity

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