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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