TY - BOOK AU - Gough-Yates,Anna TI - Understanding women's magazines: publishing, markets and readerships SN - 0415216389 AV - PN5124.W6 G68 2003 U1 - 051.08209410904 21 PY - 2003/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Women's periodicals, English KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 20th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Understanding women's magazines -- Post-Fordism, post-feminism and the 'new woman' in late twentieth-century Britain -- The empires strike back: from Fordism to post-Fordism in the British magazine industry -- Who's that girl?: advertising, market research and the female consumer in the 1980s -- Seriously glamorous or glamorously serious?: working out the 'working woman' -- 'What women want under the covers': new markets and the 'new woman' in the 1980s -- 'Marie Claire -- c'est moi!': magazine editors, cultural intermediaries and the 'new middle class' -- Desperately tweaking Susan: the business of women's magazines in the 1990s -- conclusions N2 - "Understanding Women's Magazines investigates the changing landscape of women's magazines. Anna Gough-Yates on the successes, failures and shifting fortunes of a number of magazines including Elle, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Frank, New Woman and Red and considers the dramatic developments that have taken place in women's magazine publishing in the last two decades." "Understanding Women's Magazines examines the transformation in the production, advertising and marketing practices of women's magazines. Arguing that these changes were driven by political and economic shifts, commercial cultures and the need to get closer to the reader, the book shows how this has led to an increased focus on consumer lifestyles and attempts by publishers to identify and target a 'New Woman'."--Jacket UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1009/2002028356-b.html ER -