Women magazine.




  • Woman's lifestyle.
  • Sub-Genres.
  • Target audience- Middle aged women.
  • Title is serif font which portrays elegance.
  • The other information is in sans serif font which portray modernity.
  • The title paired with the title 'Woman' suggests women are elegant.
  • Mise en scene of the pastel colours connotes that women are calm and not aggressive.
  • Mise en scene of the models makeup connotes natural beauty.
  • Rhetorical question functions as a proireic code.
  • Direct mode of address functions as a housewife stereotype.
  • Connotations of "Lingerie goes lively" may be an example of sexualisation. 
  • The models airbrushed white teeth connotes health and confidence.
  • Costume plunging dress and shoulders is potentially breaking stereotypes and is confident.
  • Removal of eye bag's, wrinkles and spots connotes that she is an inspiration.
  • Purple is symbolic of flowers which is stereotypically beautiful and associated with women.
  • The word 'Kitchen' is larger then the word 'Lingerie' which suggests that housewife duties are more important than sex.
  • 'Lingerie goes lively' is a binary opposition to the conservative image of the women.
  • Her forced fake smile is the hegemonic expectations forced by men that women have to fit into to appeal to male standards. 
  • Bright yellow font is bold and stand out.
  • Serif font of a masthead is also symbolic of the expectations of women to be elegant.
  • "world greatest women magazine" is an example of a hyperbole.
  • ethnocentrism- belief that your country is better than everyone else. "British women have a special magic".
  • "special magic" indicates what men don't have.

Woman magazine costs 7p ( 80p in 2019).
Woman magazine is a weekly magazine.
Set edition: 23-29 August 1964.
Printed on rough cheap paper.
Women magazine became quite popular after WW2.
3 million copies per week in 1960.
Publishes weekly by IPC.

Socio-historical: what was going on socially in that time.

Contents page.

  • Assumption made by the producer that the reader has children.
  • Special article is about men which reinforces the importance of men. 
  • The top feature is an interview with a man.
  • "A-level looks makeup to work miracles"- Women need makeup and they are ugly if they don't wear it.
  • If A-levels is aspirational then its unlikely women have been to university.
  • Contents aren't very different to modern day women's magazine.
  • Women liberation movement 1972- equal pay, Wedlock is Deadlock, marriage is rape. 
  • Advertisers used the women liberation to make money.
  • Women magazine ignored the women liberation.
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