This paper uses a case study from 1970s girls’ magazine Honey to demonstrate how paying attention to reader contributions published in magazines can give a richer, more nuanced view of the relationship between magazine and reader. The case study, a debate on why women assume they will have children, offers a new understanding of the way that these interactions in the text contributed to the development of young women’s understanding of the increasing freedoms available to them in the 1970s.
Lovegrove, Elizabeth
Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment\School of Arts
Year of publication: 2018Date of RADAR deposit: 2018-05-29