Next August Routledge will publish Feminism, UK Women’s Magazines and the Women who Created Them, 1975–1992: Glossy Cover or Cultural Shift? by Dr. Sharon Maxwell Magnus, a study of how three magazines: Spare Rib, Cosmopolitan and Woman’s Own, mediated debates over reproductive rights, workplace equality, and sexual violence in Britain from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s.
Magnus, a lecturer in Mass Media at the University of Hertfordshire and member of the international Magazine Media Research Network (MagNet), combines archival research with interviews with the influential women who produced the magazines. The book will be of great value to contemporary historians, students of gender and cultural studies, media scholars, and those who are interested in finding out how feminism influenced their parents’ and their own generation. More about the book here.
