Staging the Public Sphere: Magazine Dialogism and the Prosthetics of Authorship at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

A Cottage Of One’s Own: Making Modern Women Through Word and Image in Interwar Women’s Homemaking Magazines

“…Taking the idea of "fissure" as a starting point, this article argues that magazines, as hybrid and "composite texts"-consisting of copy, titling, drawn illustrations, photographs, editorial, features, advertising, fiction, advice columns, competitions, and more-were a quintessential medium for the expression of the paradoxes, tensions, and contradictions that were shaping women's lives and identities in the period, particularly as homeowners. 13 As Rachel Ritchie, Sue Hawkins, Nicola Phillips, and S. Jay Kleinberg observe, the "tensions and paradoxes that both characterize the relationship between women and magazines . .…”

Desire, Dispossession, and Dreams of Social Data: Black Clubwomen’s Intellectual Thought and Aesthetics During the Progressive Era in Public Writing and Print Culture

“…black middle-class and educated black women), it fits within a tradition of modern periodical culture, featuring the use of interdisciplinary discourse and evolving composition practices. 39 The Woman's Era's incorporation of sociology and social thought into the broader spectrum of black women's accounts of club activities, black culture, and social life anticipates Harlem Renaissance magazines like Crisis, Messenger, and Opportunity, which enabled white and black social scientists to read and write about critical issues in African American culture and life with the activist purpose of undermining racist stereotypes. 40 Its standard columns changed every few months, with the exceptions of "The Literature Department" by Medora Gould, notes on the social happenings of different clubs, and Ruffin's own editorials.…”

Bloomsbury in Berlin: Vita Sackville-West's Seducers in Ecuador on the German Literary Marketplace

“…40 In line with recent studies of journal print culture, I explore here both the internal dialogics of the German literary magazine in which Seducers in Ecuador appeared in translation, by looking at the relationships between Sackville-West's work and other contributions to the same issue, while also examining the external dialogics of the Neue Rundschau, namely the geographical and cultural reach of the territories on which it reported and the ideological agenda with which it aligned itself. 41 The Neue Rundschau was a far cry from the many modernist magazines that were springing up in German and Austria in the 1920s. 42 It tended to reflect the concerns of a middle-class readership rather than more experimental cultural impulses.…”