Autor: Margaret Beetham

Like the corset, the women’s magazines which emerged in the nineteenth century produced a `natural’ idea of femininity: the domestic wife; the fashionable woman; the romancing and desirable girl. The …

New Woman Hybridities explores the diversity of meanings ascribed to the turn-of-the-century New Woman in the context of cultural debates conducted within and across a wide range of national framewor …

Since the 1970s, the literary and cultural politics of the turn-of-the-century New Woman have received increasing academic attention. Whether she is seen as the emblem of sexual anarchy, an agent of …

Since the 1970s, the literary and cultural politics of the turn-of-the-century New Woman have received increasing academic attention. Whether she is seen as the emblem of sexual anarchy, an agent of …

Like the corset, the women’s magazines which emerged in the nineteenth century produced a `natural’ idea of femininity: the domestic wife; the fashionable woman; the romancing and desirable girl. The …

Like the corset, the women’s magazines which emerged in the nineteenth century produced a `natural’ idea of femininity: the domestic wife; the fashionable woman; the romancing and desirable girl. The …

This book integrates new material, using sources from the eighteenth and nineteenth century periodical press, research with contemporary readers, the authors’ critical reading of past and present mag …