This collection explores the diversity, highlighting the differing and at times contradictory images and understandings of women in a range of magazines and women's contributions to magazines in a number of contexts from late nineteenth century publications to twenty-first century titles in Britain, North America, continental Europe and Australia. Table of Contents: Introduction Rachel Ritchie, Sue Hawkins, Nicola Phillips and S. Jay Kleinberg; Part I: Thinking About Women's Magazines 1. Fragmentation and Inclusivity: Methods for Working with Girls' and Women's Magazines / Penny Tinkler 2. Landscape for a Good Woman's Weekly: Finding Magazines in Post-War British History and Culture / Tracey Loughran; Part II: Ideals of Femininity and Negotiating Gender Norms; 3. Gender, Reproduction and the Fight for Free Love in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press / Sarah Jones; 4. Inter-War Czech Women's Magazines: Constructing Gender, Consumer Culture and Identity in Central Europe / Karla Huebner; 5. Make Any Occasion a Special Event: Hospitality, Domesticity and Female Cordial Consumption in Magazine Advertising, 1950-1969 / Rochelle Pereira-Alvares; 6. Righting Women in the 1960s: Gender, Power and Conservatism in the Pages of 'The New Guard' / Sinead McEneaney; Part III: Women, Magazines and Employment: 7. Getting a Living, Getting a Life: Leonora Eyles, Employment and Agony, 1925-1930 / Fiona Hackney; 8. "Corresponding with Men": Exploring the Significance of Constance Maynard's Magazine Writing, 1913-1920 / Gretchen Galbraith; 9. The Married Woman Worker in 'Chatelaine' Magazine, 1948-1964 / Helen Glew; 10. Nanny Knows Best? : Tensions in Nanny Employment in Early and Mid-Twentieth-Century British Childcare Magazines / Katherine Holden; Part IV: Young Women in Magazines; 11. The American Girl: Ideas of Nationalism and Sexuality as Promoted in the 'Ladies' Home Journal' during the Early Twentieth Century / Cheyanne Cortez; 12. A Taste of Honey: Get-Ahead Femininity in 1960s Britain / Fan Carter; Part V: Women's Bodies from Second Wave Feminism to the Twenty-First Century; 13. Popular Feminism and the Second Wave: Women's Liberation, Sexual Liberation and 'Cleo' Magazine / Megan Le Masurier; 14. How 'Ladies' Home Journal' Covered Second Wave Health, 1969-1975 / Amanda Hinnant; 15. 'Beauty Trade' and the Rise of American Black Hair Magazines / Carina Spaulding.