Amy B. Aronson

Taking Liberties (eBook, PDF)

Early American Women's Magazines and Their Readers

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Unlike its British forebears, the early American magazine, or periodical miscellany, functioned in culture as a forum driven by manifold contributions and perpetuated by reader response. Arising in colonial Philadelphia, America's more democratic magazine sustained a range of conflicting ideas, norms, and beliefs-indeed, it promoted their very exchange. It invited and embraced competing voices, particularly during the first 75 years of the Republic. In this first-ever account of the early American magazine as a distinct form, Amy Beth Aronson reveals how such participatory dynamics and public visibility offered special advantages to women, especially to those with sufficient education, access, and financial means, for whom ladies magazines offered unusual opportunities for self-expression, collective discussion, and cultural response. Moreover, the genre opened and sustained dialogue among contributors, whose competing voices played off each other, provoking rebuttal and revision by subsequent contributors and noncontributing readers. This free play of discourse positioned women's words in a uniquely productive way, offering a kind of community of women readers who, together, wrote and revised magazine content and collectively negotiated and authorized new language for a new public's use.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313076237
• Artikelnr.: 37814112

Autorenporträt

AMY BETH ARONSON is an independent author. She is the co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinity, The Gendered Society: Readings, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Women and Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: I Want My Mademoiselle: Guilt, Pleasure, and the Politics of
Participation in the American Women's Magazine Taking Liberties: Democracy
and Dynamics in America's Magazine Audience Engagements: Constructing the
Popular Woman Reader Sons of Liberty and Their Silenced Sisters: Rising to
Self-Representation in the Women's Magazines of the Early Republic
Understanding Equals: Identity and Community in Sarah Hale's (American)
Ladies' Magazine Media Makeovers: Converting the Popular to Politics in
America's First Feminist Magazines Epilogue: Where Are They Now? Women's
Voices and the Mass Market Magazine