<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class="">This message is being forwarded from another list serve; please do not reply to me or the list.</div><div class=""><br></div><div class="">Mary Bucholtz, GALA-L List Owner</div><div class=""><br></div><div class="">--------------</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Professor S Jay Kleinberg, <a href="mailto:jay.kleinberg@brunel.ac.uk" class="">jay.kleinberg@brunel.ac.uk</a><br class=""></div><div>Emeritus Professor, Brunel University<br class=""></div><div>Chair of SHAW (the Society for the History of Women in the Americas),<br class=""></div><div><a href="http://shawsociety.tumblr.com/" class="">http://shawsociety.tumblr.com</a><br class=""></div><br class=""><div>Women in Magazines: Research, Representation, Production and Consumption<br class=""></div><br class=""><div>In November 2011, Woman’s Weekly celebrated its 100 year birthday by<br class=""></div><div>including a reproduction of the first issue inside the centenary edition.<br class=""></div><div>A month later, USVogue launched a digital archive containing every page<br class=""></div><div>published since 1892. These events remind us of the rich history which<br class=""></div><div>lies behind titles that continue to grace the shelves marked ‘women’s<br class=""></div><div>magazines’ on both sides of the Atlantic. Academics, especially feminist<br class=""></div><div>scholars, have long explored this history and the relationship between<br class=""></div><div>women and the journals that target them, but in recent years this<br class=""></div><div>interest appears to have declined. ‘Women in Magazines’ seeks to<br class=""></div><div>reassert the importance of magazines, in Britain and America, as a<br class=""></div><div>significant source for women’s and gender historians, by showcasing their<br class=""></div><div>latest research.<br class=""></div><br class=""><div>The conference is broad in scope, reflecting the interests of its<br class=""></div><div>supporting organisations: the Centre for the Historical Record (Kingston<br class=""></div><div>University), the Centre for American, Transatlantic and Caribbean History<br class=""></div><div>(Brunel University), the Society for the History of Women in the Americas<br class=""></div><div>(SHAW), the Women’s History Network and The Women’s Library. It will<br class=""></div><div>offer a platform for examining the role of women as producers, subjects<br class=""></div><div>and consumers of magazines; it will also explore magazines as important<br class=""></div><div>historical records that are being made more accessible by digital<br class=""></div><div>technology. The remit is neither bound by time period nor genre: women’s<br class=""></div><div>relationships with specialist journals, trade magazines and non-gender<br class=""></div><div>specific lifestyle publications such as Ebony are of equal interest to<br class=""></div><div>traditional ‘women’s magazines’. The aim is to encourage<br class=""></div><div>interdisciplinary dialogue alongside discussion between scholars and<br class=""></div><div>representatives of the contemporary magazine industry. An edited<br class=""></div><div>collection based on papers presented is planned.<br class=""></div><br class=""><div>The conference will be hosted by Kingston University, London, on 22-23<br class=""></div><div>June 2012. Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to<br class=""></div><div><a href="mailto:womeninmagazines@gmail.com" class="">womeninmagazines@gmail.com</a> by 9 March.<br class=""></div><br class=""><div>The keynote speakers are Noliwe Rooks (Princeton University), author of<br class=""></div><div>works including Ladies' Pages: African American Women's Magazines and the<br class=""></div><div>Culture That Made Them, and Penny Tinkler (University of Manchester),<br class=""></div><div>whose publications include Constructing Girlhood: popular magazines for<br class=""></div><div>girls growing up in England, 1920-1950.<br class=""></div><br class=""><div>Key themes for the event are consumption, lifecycles and age, race and<br class=""></div><div>ethnicity, sexuality, social class, geography and location. Suggested<br class=""></div><div>topics could include, but are not limited to:<br class=""></div><br class=""><div>Advertising and marketing<br class=""></div><div>Advice and education Archives and digitization<br class=""></div><div>Beauty and fashion Celebrity culture<br class=""></div><div>Editors and journalists Entertainment and gossip<br class=""></div><div>Gender ideology Methodology and literature<br class=""></div><div>Notions of public and private Politics and citizenship<br class=""></div><div>Readers, reading and reception studies Relationships and the family<br class=""></div><div>The home The magazine industry<br class=""></div><div>Work and careers As well as thematic papers, we encourage reflections<br class=""></div><div>upon how we use magazines as a historic record. We also encourage papers<br class=""></div><div>that look at the 19th century or earlier and particularly welcome<br class=""></div><div>submissions that are transnational or comparative in scope.<br class=""></div><br class=""><div><a href="http://womeninmagazines.tumblr.com/" class="">http://womeninmagazines.tumblr.com/</a></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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