Description
Book SynopsisPresents a study of how people use media products, how they fit into their day-to-day lives and more. This book focuses on women's magazines, on how they are read and the role they play in their readers (mainly women's) lives.
Trade Review'Reading Women's Magazines is an eminently readable, innovative and daring book, taking the study of media consumption one step further in the direction of an anthropology of everyday life, where it belongs.'
Ien Ang, Murdoch University, Australia 'The audience orientation of the book is likely to make it of particular interest to students studying the sociology of the media.'
Times Higher Education Supplement
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements.
Introduction.
1. Everyday Media Use.
2. Easily Put Down:.
How Women and Men read Women'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.
