This book focuses on womena s magazines, on how they are read and the role they play in their readersa lives.
Reading Women's Magazines: An Analysis of Everyday Media Use
Description
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Everyday Media Use. 2. Easily Put Down:. How Women and Men read Womena s Magazines. 3. Portrait of Two Readers. 4. Reading a Feminist Magazine:. Fantasising the Female Homo Universalis. . 5. Reading Gossip Magazines:. The Imagined Communities of "Gossip" and "Camp". Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.
Author Description
Joke Hermes is a Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam.