Woman's World

Southern Minnesota's lifestyle magazine for women. The 10 new members of editorial board of the "Women-Church-World" magazine include a number of Italian Catholic professors, researchers and writers as well as Amy-Jill Levine, a U.S.-based scholar, historian, writer and self-described "Yankee Jewish feminist," who teaches at Vanderbilt University; Shahrzad Houshmand Zadeh, a former lecturer of Islamic studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and vice president of the women's consultation group of the Pontifical Council for Culture.
Girls Bulletin is a women's magazine which provides information and publishes articles about women's interests. We bring stories and facts to women in an entertaining way. Nevertheless, women's service magazines retain a significant share of the magazine for women market, although the "big six" list has been replaced by the "seven sisters": Family Circle, Woman's Day, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's, Redbook, and Better Homes and Gardens.

Penny Martin, editor of The Gentlewoman , a biannual magazine based in Britain, said she helped start the publication in 2010 to provide an alternative to anti-intellectualizing” women's magazines, which were always covering the same five Jennifers.” Though the magazine reports on fashion, you are more likely to find a 5,000-word oral history about the radical 1989 Maison Martin Margiela fashion show than you would an article on celebrities with very thin arms and very big handbags,” Ms. Martin said.
For decades, magazines have sold women countless lies about sex, emotional fulfillment and health issues—usually under the guise of empowerment.” They prey on women's insecurities by normalizing unhealthy extremes (first it was borderline anorexia, now it's obesity).
In a truly inspiring display of shared values and common ground, Real Man magazine and Lady Life magazine have each devoted the majority of their respective pages to the issue of male sexual pleasure, specifically: what is it, what causes it, what fails to cause it, and how women should behave, dress, speak, smell, eat, think, laugh, dance, cook, sleep, Rollerblade, paint, swim, crouch, fight forest fires, and moonwalk in such a way that is maximally pleasing to men.

In the final editorial, which was sent to the printers last week but hasn't been published, the editorial board cited L'Osservatore's initiatives with other women contributors that they said constituted competing points of view "with the effect of pitting women against one another," with the magazine's editorial staff considered no longer trustworthy.
Gender may have been less of an issue, though, than the independence of a magazine that wasn't afraid to tell the truth about what happened within Church walls. No longer will you have to wait until a trend becomes popular and dozens of people are wearing it before you catch on. By subscribing to a hair magazine, you can keep your eye on the upcoming styles and get them before anyone else.
This is a varied, colourful and nicely curated exhibition that looks at the multifaceted nature of Women's magazines: ‘Between the Covers' has something for everyone. Unique digital availability of deep back files of consumer women's magazine titles. If you've just gotta read a mainstream women's fitness magazine, try Women's Health.

The library holds scattered issues in print and on microfilm from 1935-2001. This resource has issues from 1892 available online through ProQuest Vogue Archive for users with a valid Harvard ID. BAZAAR features fashions that are less mainstream than what is found in other magazines.