Narrative Analysis of Sexual Etiquette in Teenage Magazines

Expanding on existing research on women\u27s magazines, this essay examines the sexual etiquette developed in advice columns in magazines popular among teenage women. Over a span of 20 years, the advice has changed very little. Serving the rhetorical function of field guides and training manuals, teen magazines limit women\u27s sociality and sexuality within narrowly defined heterosexual norms and practices. The rhetoric of sexual etiquette encourages young women to be sex objects and teachers of interpersonal communication rather than lovers, friends, and partners. Young women are being taught to subordinate self for others and to be contained

Do Media Consumers Really Dislike Advertising? An Empirical Assessment of a Popular Assumption in Economic Theory

This paper uses data on the population of German magazines for the period 1973 to 2004 to show that, contrary to conventional wisdom, there is little evidence for magazine readers disliking advertising. Many magazines in fact have readers who appreciate advertising. The degree of appreciation increases in reader age and decreases with income as well as with education.two-sided markets; advertising; Mean Group Estimation; media markets; nuisance

"Appearance potent"? A content analysis of UK gay and straight men's magazines.

With little actual appraisal, a more 'appearance potent' (i.e., a reverence for appearance ideals) subculture has been used to explain gay men's greater body dissatisfaction in comparison to straight men's. This study sought to assess the respective appearance potency of each subculture by a content analysis of 32 issues of the most read gay (Attitude, Gay Times) and straight men's magazines (Men's Health, FHM) in the UK. Images of men and women were coded for their physical characteristics, objectification and nudity, as were the number of appearance adverts and articles. The gay men's magazines featured more images of men that were appearance ideal, nude and sexualized than the straight men's magazines. The converse was true for the images of women and appearance adverts. Although more research is needed to understand the effect of this content on the viewer, the findings are consistent with a more appearance potent gay male subculture

The Little Magazine in Contemporary America

Little magazines have often showcased the best new writing in America. Historically, these idiosyncratic, small-circulation outlets have served the dual functions of representing the avant-garde of literary expression while also helping many emerging writers become established authors. Although changing technology and the increasingly harsh financial realities of publishing over the past three decades would seem to have pushed little magazines to the brink of extinction, their story is far more complicated. In this collection, Ian Morris and Joanne Diaz gather the reflections of twenty-three prominent editors whose little magazines have flourished over the past thirty-five years. Highlighting the creativity and innovation driving this diverse and still vital medium, contributors offer insights into how their publications sometimes succeeded, sometimes reluctantly folded, but mostly how they evolved and persevered. Other topics discussed include the role of little magazines in promoting the work and concerns of minority and women writers, the place of universities in supporting and shaping little magazines, and the online and offline future of these publications. From Amazon.comhttps://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/bookshelf/1082/thumbnail.jp

Women Editing Modernism: Little Magazines and Literary History

For many years young writers experimenting with forms and aesthetics in the early decades of this century, small journals known collectively as “little” magazines were the key to recognition. Joyce, Stein, Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, and scores of other iconoclastic writers now considered central to modernism received little encouragement from the established publishers. It was the avant-garde magazines, many of them headed by women, that fostered new talent and found a readership for it. Jayne Marek examines the work of seven women editors—Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson, Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, H.D., Bryher (Winifred Ellerman), and Marianne Moore—whose varied activities, often behind the scenes and in collaboration with other women, contributed substantially to the development of modernist literature. Through such publications as Poetry , The Little Review , The Dial , and Close Up , these women had a profound influence that has been largely overlooked by literary historians. Marek devotes a chapter as well to the interactions of these editors with Ezra Pound, who depended upon but also derided their literary tastes and accomplishments. Pound’s opinions have had lasting influence in shaping critical responses to women editors of the early twentieth century. In the current reevaluation of modernism, this important book, long overdue, offers an indispensable introduction to the formative influence of women editors, both individually and in their collaborative efforts. Jayne Marek is associate professor of English at Franklin College. A well-researched, fully documented revisionist study. The study does impressive double duty in its recovery of archival material and the construction of \u27Conversation\u27 as a paradigm for examining women\u27s editorial activity in the modernist period. —American Literature The first of its kind. An invaluable contribution. —Annotated Bibliography for English Studies Marek singles out the contributions of a fascinating contingent of literary figures. —Booklist Marek\u27s focus is unique, and she includes a significant amount of previously unpublished material. —Choice An extremely interesting and informative history of seven modernist women editors. —English Literature in Transition A serious book and enjoyable reading. Only Marek\u27s illuminating study has proved that women\u27s contribution as editors of literary magazines of Anglo-American modernism was overwhelming. The whole book speaks eloquently and convincingly: women editors were catalysts and shapers of literary modernism. —Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies The new archival research here should prove useful for future scholarship. —Journal of American History An important study. . . . The overall evidence that women editors played an important role in promoting critical dialog, new ideas, and new literature cannot be denied. —Library Journal Marek\u27s book renders visible through its overview the female networks and underpinnings of modernism; in that respect it is invaluable. —Media History A useful, highly readable guide to the achievements of the women under examination. —Modernism An informed and nuanced study of women catalyzing modernism by their work as editors. A serious addition to the new narratives of modernism, making a notable contribution to an evolving feminist scholarship. —Rachel Blau DuPlessis For readers interested not only in women\u27s studies, but also publishing history and modern literature. —Small Press Book Review Marek constructs a powerful, alternative account of seven women who, in primary ways, shaped the aesthetics of modernism and the modernist canon. She brings them alive—not as personalities or psyches, but as critical intelligences who had independent views about literature and used their magazines to express and test them. —South Atlantic Review Sticks a further and very substantial puncture in the rapidly deflating balloon of male modernist supremacy. . . A thoughtful and scrupulously researched study. —The Review of English Studies Offers detailed, carefully-documented, and absorbing accounts of behind-the-scenes dealings both with texts and their authors. —Tulsa Studies in Women\u27s Literature Make[s] a very effective case both for the shaping influence of these women and for the continued study of the little magazine as a forcefield of literary modernism. —Yearbook of English Studieshttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_north_america/1012/thumbnail.jp

Conscientizacao: A Theory of Community In Little Magazines

A paper by Chris Green discussing the early days of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative

The Little Become Big?: Ambit and London's Little Magazines, 1959-1999

In The Little Magazines: A Study of Six Editors (1976), Ian Hamilton described the little magazine as a medium 'which exists, indeed thrives, outside the usual business structure of magazine production and distribution; it is independent, amateur and idealistic' (pp. 7-8). Although this definition applies to many titles of the Thirties, Forties and Fifties, it fails to register radical improvements in magazine design, distribution and book-keeping prompted by the mimeo revolution in the Sixties, Arts Council (ACGB) rationalisation in the Seventies and Eighties, and electronic publishing in the Nineties. This thesis offers a literary-historical account of Ambit's evolution from a scruffy, mimeo-produced pamphlet to a glossy, ACGB-sponsored quarterly. It provides a decade-by-decade analysis of Ambit's principal formal and thematic concerns, relating them to the work of key contributors in poetry, prose fiction and the visual arts, and detailing the emergence of a distinctive Ambit identity. At the same time, Ambit is also treated as a chronologue of the formal development of the contemporary little magazine, registering the complex economic, cultural and technological stimuli that affected the medium between 1959 and 1999. Both approaches are designed to test Hamilton's reading of little magazine history against a. detailed study of a major literary-arts quarterly of the post-1960 period, and identify ways in which contemporary publications like Ambit (1959- ), Agenda (1959- ), New Departures (1959- ) and Stand (1952- ) have departed from Hamilton's highly romanticised conception of 'littleness'. The thesis concludes by suggesting that Ambit and its contemporaries have sacrificed independence, amateurism and idealism for the entrepreneurial pragmatism that has sustained their commitment to the 'non-commercial' publication of 'artistic work from unknown or relatively unknown writers' that Frederick J. Hoffman et al in The Little Magazine: A History and a Bibliography (1946) (p. 2) saw as the little magazine's raison d'être

Do Ads Influence Editors? Advertising and Bias in the Financial Media

We use mutual fund recommendations to test whether editorial content is independent from advertisers’ influence in the financial media. We find that major personal finance magazines (Money, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, and SmartMoney) are more likely to recommend funds from families that have advertised within their pages in the past, controlling for fund characteristics like expenses, past returns and the overall levels of advertising. We find little evidence of a similar relationship for mentions in the New York Times or Wall Street Journal. Positive media mentions in both newspapers and magazines are associated with significant future inflows into the fund while advertising expenditures are not. Therefore, if we interpret our coefficients causally, a large share of the benefit of advertising in our sample of personal finance magazines comes via the apparent content bias. The welfare implications of this apparent bias are unclear, however, since our tests suggest that bias does not directly lead publications to recommend funds with significantly lower future returns than they might have recommended in the absence of any bias. In selecting funds to recommend, magazines overweight past returns relative to expenses, and as a group their recommendations do not outperform even an equal- weighted average of their peers. Nevertheless, this approach leaves magazines with large numbers of funds with high past returns from which to select, and so bias towards advertisers can be accommodated without significantly reducing readers’ future returns. Interestingly, the recommendations of Consumer Reports, which does not accept advertising, have future returns comparable to or below those of the publications which accept do advertising.mutual fund recommendations

Tilting at Windmills: the literary magazine in Australia, 1968-2012

Up until the late 1960s the story of Australian literary magazines was one of continuing struggle against the odds, and of the efforts of individuals, such as Clem Christesen, Stephen Murray-Smith, and Max Harris. During that time, the magazines played the role of 'enfant terrible', creating a space where unpopular opinions and writers were allowed a voice. The magazines have very often been ahead of their time and some of the agendas they have pursued have become 'central' to representations, where once they were marginal. Broadly, 'little' magazines have often been more influential than their small circulations would first indicate, and the author's argument is that they have played a valuable role in the promotion of Australian literature