Table of Contents

Introduction: I Want My Mademoiselle: Guilt, Pleasure, and the Politics of Participation in the American Women's Magazine
Taking Liberties: Democracy and Dynamics in America's Magazine
Audience Engagements: Constructing the Popular Woman Reader
Sons of Liberty and Their Silenced Sisters: Rising to Self-Representation in the Women's Magazines of the Early Republic
Understanding Equals: Identity and Community in Sarah Hale's (American) Ladies' Magazine
Media Makeovers: Converting the Popular to Politics in America's First Feminist Magazines
Epilogue: Where Are They Now? Women's Voices and the Mass Market Magazine

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Offers the first-ever analysis of the American women's magazine as a distinct form, as well as a presentation of the construction of the popular woman reader.

About the Author

Amy Beth Aronson is an independent author. She is the co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinity, The Gendered Society: Readings, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Women and Economics.

Reviews

.,."this is a thoughtful book tha provides a good overview of early women's magazines. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers."-Choice

?...this is a thoughtful book tha provides a good overview of early women's magazines. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.?-Choice

?[a] valuable addition to the growing scholarship on women's periodicals and their readers....[T]aking Liberties is a well researched and thoughtfully considered addition to the field. It examines not only women's magazines of the eighteenth and early nineteeth centuries but also their relevance to women's magazines of our own time.?-Journalism History

?[T]his is an insightful, intelligent, important book. It shows early women's magazine readers as practive agents in creation of meaning, and it illustrates the complexity of a much-maligned magazine form.?-American Journalism

"Ýa¨ valuable addition to the growing scholarship on women's periodicals and their readers....ÝT¨aking Liberties is a well researched and thoughtfully considered addition to the field. It examines not only women's magazines of the eighteenth and early nineteeth centuries but also their relevance to women's magazines of our own time."-Journalism History

"ÝT¨his is an insightful, intelligent, important book. It shows early women's magazine readers as practive agents in creation of meaning, and it illustrates the complexity of a much-maligned magazine form."-American Journalism

..."this is a thoughtful book tha provides a good overview of early women's magazines. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers."-Choice

"[T]his is an insightful, intelligent, important book. It shows early women's magazine readers as practive agents in creation of meaning, and it illustrates the complexity of a much-maligned magazine form."-American Journalism

"[a] valuable addition to the growing scholarship on women's periodicals and their readers....[T]aking Liberties is a well researched and thoughtfully considered addition to the field. It examines not only women's magazines of the eighteenth and early nineteeth centuries but also their relevance to women's magazines of our own time."-Journalism History