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[Mary Bucholtz]

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Professor S Jay Kleinberg, jay.kleinberg at brunel.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor, Brunel University
Chair of SHAW (the Society for the History of Women in the Americas),
http://shawsociety.tumblr.com

Women in Magazines: Research, Representation, Production and Consumption

In November 2011, Woman’s Weekly celebrated its 100 year birthday by
including a reproduction of the first issue inside the centenary edition.
A month later, USVogue launched a digital archive containing every page
published since 1892. These events remind us of the rich history which
lies behind  titles that continue to grace the shelves marked ‘women’s
magazines’ on both sides of the Atlantic.  Academics, especially feminist
scholars, have long explored this history and the relationship between
women and the journals that target them, but in recent years this
interest appears to have declined.  ‘Women in Magazines’ seeks to
reassert the importance of magazines, in Britain and America, as a
significant source for women’s and gender historians, by showcasing their
latest research.

The conference is broad in scope, reflecting the interests of its
supporting organisations:  the Centre for the Historical Record (Kingston
University), the Centre for American, Transatlantic and Caribbean History
(Brunel University), the Society for the History of Women in the Americas
(SHAW), the Women’s History Network and The Women’s Library.  It will
offer a platform for examining the role of women as producers, subjects
and consumers of magazines; it will also explore magazines as important
historical records that are being made more accessible by digital
technology.  The remit is neither bound by time period nor genre: women’s
relationships with specialist journals, trade magazines and non-gender
specific lifestyle publications such as Ebony are of equal interest to
traditional ‘women’s magazines’. The aim is to encourage
interdisciplinary dialogue alongside discussion between scholars and
representatives of the contemporary magazine industry. An edited
collection based on papers presented is planned.

The conference will be hosted by Kingston University, London, on 22-23
June 2012. Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to
womeninmagazines at gmail.com by 9 March.

The keynote speakers are Noliwe Rooks (Princeton University), author of
works including Ladies' Pages: African American Women's Magazines and the
Culture That Made Them, and Penny Tinkler (University of Manchester),
whose publications include Constructing Girlhood: popular magazines for
girls growing up in England, 1920-1950.

Key themes for the event are consumption, lifecycles and age, race and
ethnicity, sexuality, social class, geography and location.  Suggested
topics could include, but are not limited to:

Advertising and marketing
Advice and education Archives and digitization
Beauty and fashion Celebrity culture
Editors and journalists Entertainment and gossip
Gender ideology Methodology and literature
Notions of public and private Politics and citizenship
Readers, reading and reception studies Relationships and the family
The home The magazine industry
Work and careers As well as thematic papers, we encourage reflections
upon how we use magazines as a historic record.  We also encourage papers
that look at the 19th century or earlier and particularly welcome
submissions that are transnational or comparative in scope.

http://womeninmagazines.tumblr.com/
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Mary Bucholtz, Professor
Department of Linguistics
3432 South Hall
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3100

http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/
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