But - okay, it's me again - there's a still longer history
Columnists are deploring the closing-down of women's magazines: Women’s magazines are more progressive than ever - and they’re all closing down and Marie Claire wasn’t all fluff. It filled a crucial gap in women’s lives.
And, okay, I'm glad to see that they're acknowledging the work that these magazines did, but - as ever, I'm a bit irked that they think it all kicked off of relatively recent decades, and that it wasn't building on the work of people like Evelyn Home and Marje Proops who paved the way for the Claire Rayner and Virgina Ironsides who are name-checked, and that women's mags like She and Woman's Mirror and the short-lived but wonderful Nova were doing a lot of necessary helpful work about women's condition.
Will confess that my habit of devouring any woman's mag that came into the house - my mother had several and her friends passed on copies - meant that I have occasionally been a bit WHUT about various women's health issues - e.g. menopause - about which women of today claim they have not been informed, and upon which I fancied myself reasonably well instructed in my teens.
Women's magazines - which cover rather a wide swathe of interests and markets - yesterday at the Cindy Sherman exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery I noted that the 'Covergirls' section not only showed her riffing off the poses but also the differing styles of the differing women's mags she was playing with - are yet another of those despised genres that fly under the radar and are possibly a whole Russ category of their own. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2975356.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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