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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"women's magazines"”.
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Discourses of motherhood in women's magazines in contemporary Britain
… is represented in the text and images of women's magazines in contemporary Britain. It explores discourses of motherhood in this popular cultural form at this particular historical time, using quantitative, semiotic and discourse analyses of selected monthly magazines. Psychoanalytic …
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(Inter)nationalizing Taiwanese Women's Magazines: Birth of Consuming Women
… the media defines femininity. Using Taiwanese women's magazines as a site of analysis, my dissertation offers a history of the changing articulations of femininity from the 1950s to the present, with an emphasis on the relationships among gender identity, consumption, nation formation, and …
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Analysis of Weight-Related Advertisements and Nutrition Articles in Popular Women's Magazines
… messages and themes from food advertisements in women's magazines reinforce or contradict the messages communicated in nutrition-related articles focusing on weight control within the same magazines.</p> <p>Design: Content analysis of 48 issues of weight-related content six popular women's …
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Thin Is In: a Content Analysis of Images in Women's Magazines From 2009-2011
Many research studies have shown that women constantly compare themselves to the models they see featured in women's magazines, and in turn, develop body image issues, negative mood changes and even eating disorders. The majority of findings show that women often develop these serious side-effects …
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The construction of a particular version of the modern Indonesian women in contemporary Indonesian women's magazines
This thesis analyses the representation of women in two women’s magazines in Indonesia. It compares and contrasts the representation of women under the New Order Regime (1966-1998) and the Reformasi (reformation) period (1998-1999) through an analysis of the content of Kartini and Femina, between …
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The Relationship of Women's Magazines and Their Websites: A Comparative Analysis of Print and Web Content
<p>With the digital expansion of magazines, it is essential to determine how a magazine's online and digital content compares to its print content. The editorial strategy for print content versus Web content could make a difference in consumers' brand attachment and loyalty to a magazine. Magazines …
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"Reading ""Rabotnitsa"": Ideals, Aspirations, and Consumption Choices for Soviet Women, 1914--1964"
The author finds that Western women's magazines and their Soviet counterpart, Rabotnitsa, played similar roles in corresponding societies. Both Soviet and Western women's magazines provided guidance, generated ideals, and established standards that their female readers were advised to emulate. …
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Comparison of calcium and weight loss information in teen-focused versus women's magazines over two four-year periods (1986-1989 and 1991-1994)
Specialty magazines play a role in shaping how females of all ages view the world and themselves. This world for teens is often focused on dating, fashion and the evolving and conflicting issues of self-confidence and body image. Home, health and career messages predominate women's magazines. A …
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Writing themselves into the text : letters to Ms., 1993-1998
… role of the Letter to the Editor in women's magazine culture. It does so through a textual analysis of letters and editorials in Ms ., an American feminist magazine which has, since its inception in 1972, set itself up as an alternative to "traditional" and "glossy" women's magazines. …
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Die aanbieding van politiek as nuusonderwerp in Sarie, Rooi Rose en Fair Lady (1994-2005)
… of politics as news topic in the South African women's magazines Fair Lady, Rooi Rose and SARIE in selected years from democratisation in 1994 to 2004. The basic assumption of the study is that the media has the pertinent function to inform and educate society to effectively partake in a …
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Confession, surveillance and subjectivity : a discourse analytic approach to advice columns
… - to advice columns from three South African women's magazines. An interpretative analysis effects of discourse, renders salient the relationship between knowledges, discursive practices, power and institutions. Using, as a standing point, Wendy Hollway's work on subject positioning of women …
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The analysis of representations of disability in Western culture within a feminist framework
… of disabled people with the representations of women's bodies that are found in cultural representations. The body of the thesis is comprised of six chapters which explore images of disability in six major cultural sites for such images: charitable advertising, popular women's magazines, …
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"Feminizing the voice of literary authority: Sarah J. Hale's editorship of the ""Ladies' Magazine"" and ""Godey's Lady's Book"""
… Contesting the perception of these popular women's magazines as anti-literary and as anti-feminist, I identify the importance of these magazines in the development of American literature and their relationship with American feminism. I argue that Hale redefined literary culture so as to …
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Transnational technologies of gender and mediated intimacy
… has not entailed the demise of commercial women's magazines. Yet print publications are being supplanted by online versions, which are proliferating. These websites offer similar content free of charge and significantly greater opportunities for interaction. This thesis is a feminist …
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Examining visual cognitive complexity in the context of online women's magazine home pages
An experiment (N=48) on 18 to 30 year-old women was run to see how the visual cognitive complexity of digital women's magazines' home pages affects the cognitive processing of individuals and their evaluations of the sites. A content analysis of 13 online magazines was conducted and six magazine …
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Genderová proměna časopisu Vlasta v roce 1991 a 2010
… It also mentions the importance of media and women's magazines for the female audience and the transformation of women's role in society before 1989 and after. In the methodological part, through open and axial coding I examine media content. In my research, I identify and describe significant …
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Dirty Work: Domestic Service and the Making of the Middle Class in Modern Women's Fiction
… and the Making of the Middle-Class in Modern Women's Fiction," I analyze the social anxieties surrounding domestic servants that permeated both popular and canonical archives in the United States during the early half of the twentieth century. I contend that a feminized and racialized brand of …
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Mobility Without Mayhem: Disciplining Mobile America Through Safety
… was an increase in ""dangerous and incompetent"" women drivers, primarily due to suburbanization. Countless popular press articles responded to and helped create this crisis, most notably in women's magazines. They assisted in altering women's relationships to mobility and technology, while also …
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Voices and roles of competing groups of elite women in Siam's political and social transitions, 1868-1942
… studies the pivotal roles and voices of elite women of both aristocratic and commoner backgrounds in the significant period of Siam's political and social transitions from the late absolute monarchy to the early post-revolutionary period between 1868 and 1942. A key focus of this study is the …
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