Complaints of Everyday Life: Feminist Periodical Culture and Correspondence Columns in the Woman Worker, Women Folk, and the Freewoman

Green, Barbara

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“…If, by way of conclusion, we read Lindsay's columns on vegetarian experimentation in relation to the correspondence published in the same issues of the Vegetarian Messenger, we can see how the periodical, rather than simply instruct its readers in vegetarianism, provided the infrastructure for readers, writers, and editors of both genders and from across the country to share their practical experiences, daily meal plans, and favourite recipes. As Barbara Green argues in relation to feminist periodicals, letters columns "provided room for a discourse of self-disclosure that enabled the production of new subjectivities" [53] (p. 464). The autobiographical discourse in the pages of vegetarian periodicals brought together a community that was based upon the exchange and communion of food.…”

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“…But, as I am suggesting, Lindsay used the exploration of individual tastes and the consumerist desire for novelty to realize her own moral ends. Moving away from the asceticism of earlier vegetarians, Lindsay and her readers constructed a new understanding of what it meant to be and live as a vegetarian, constituting what Lauren Berlant and Barbara Green discuss as "an intimate public sphere" [52,53], a community of strangers mediated by common texts and the consumption of similar things. Together they transformed the negative critique of flesh consumption into a positive technology of self-care, and used themselves as the testing ground to expose the epistemological, ontological, and moral limitations of their time.…”

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Eating Serial: Beatrice Lindsay, Vegetarianism, and the Tactics of Everyday Life in the Late Nineteenth Century

Young

2015

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This paper derives from research I conducted in the archives of the Vegetarian Society, in Manchester, in October 2011 on the figure of Beatrice Lindsay, a graduate from Girton College, Cambridge, who, in 1885, became the first female editor of the Society's journal, the Dietetic Reformer and Vegetarian Messenger. In addition to her position as editor, Lindsay contributed a monthly column on "New Foods" in which she displayed her fluency with scientific terminology not simply to advocate the vegetarian diet, but to make the diet practicable for readers. I argue that her column uses the serial form of the periodical, which presents novel content within a regular structure, to shape inchoate vegetarianism: she gradually constituted the emerging diets, habits, and bodies of vegetarians by, each month, introducing readers to novel content ("new foods") within a recurrent form.

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Eating Serial: Beatrice Lindsay, Vegetarianism, and the Tactics of Everyday Life in the Late Nineteenth Century

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2015

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“…If, as I note above, enchantment is largely an experience of visual encounter, what is at stake in distilling it in text? What, in particular, is at stake in inserting textual renderings of enchantment into this polyvocal genre, which, as Barbara Green writes, ‘makes meaning through its heterogeneity’ (2012: 462)? Or by spectacular images of feminine beauty – commercial and editorial – that appear to put femininity within reach, enacting a tension with the textual images of wondrous and inexplicable women?…”

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Domesticating enchantment: Mediating feminine magic in the interwar French fashion magazine

Parkins

2017

French Cultural Studies

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This article examines men’s writing about women as vectors of enchantment in three interwar French women’s magazines, La Femme Chic à Paris, Vogue and Gazette du Bon Ton. Such articles appeared frequently, and modernised the ancient discourse of feminine enchantment by locating it in tropes of industrial modernity, including women’s fashion and style. While enchantment is a promising concept for feminist and critical scholars, its representation in this genre of men’s writing domesticates its potential to disorient and challenge masculine subjects and conventional knowledges. The essay explores how the generic qualities of the modern women’s magazine contribute to such a domestication, and shows that tropes of modern alienation appear as the underside of feminine enchantment. The analysis suggests that we must view the women’s magazine not as women’s space, but as a heterogeneous cultural space that intermittently reinforces masculine authority.

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“…14 The rise of feminist periodical studies and the research of scholars including Green and Maria DiCenzo, among others, into suffrage print cultures has nuanced our understanding of the suffrage campaign as a literary movement, and one with a keen eye on the marketplace. 15 The new availability of suffrage texts has had a powerful impact on the field, which had historically to contend with a scarcity of primary materials. 16 Questions of literary value loom large in the critical reception of suffrage writing.…”

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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature and Politics

2022

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For a long time, people had been schooled to think of modern literature's relationship to politics as indirect or obscure, and often to find the politics of literature deep within its unconsciously ideological structures and forms. But twentieth-century writers were directly involved in political parties and causes, and many viewed their writing as part of their activism. This Companion tell a story of the rich and diverse ways in which literature and politics over the twentieth century coincided, overlapped – and also clashed. Covering some of the century's most influential political ideas, moments, and movements, nineteen academic experts uncover new ways of thinking about the relationship between literature and politics. Liberalism, communism, fascism, suffragism, pacifism, federalism, different nationalisms, civil rights, women's rights, sexual rights, Indigenous rights, environmentalism, neoliberalism: twentieth-century authors wrote in direct response to political movements, ideas, events, and campaigns.

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Complaints of Everyday Life: Feminist Periodical Culture and Correspondence Columns in the Woman Worker, Women Folk, and the Freewoman

Cited by 5 publications

References 44 publications

Eating Serial: Beatrice Lindsay, Vegetarianism, and the Tactics of Everyday Life in the Late Nineteenth Century

Eating Serial: Beatrice Lindsay, Vegetarianism, and the Tactics of Everyday Life in the Late Nineteenth Century

Domesticating enchantment: Mediating feminine magic in the interwar French fashion magazine

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature and Politics

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