Girls Girls Girls Girls Girls
The Trans-Atlantic Mass Magazine Culture of the 1920s as a Gendered Affair
- authored by
- Ruth Mayer
- Abstract
The article explores the ways in which illustrated magazines of the Weimar period contribute to a larger gendering of transnational exchange, particularly through image-text doubling and shifts. It takes the Weimar society magazine Uhu as a major reference point, investigating how it modelled itself on American lifestyle and ‘smart’ magazines and made use of the iconic figure of the ‘Girl’ to carve out a spatio-temporal continuum between ‘Amerika’ and Europe. While the Girl is a figure of the stage and screen as much as of the modern magazine, it is in the magazine that this figure comes into her own. The Girl incorporates modernity as a multimodal and multifaceted configuration much like the modern magazine itself. The article argues that the Girl enters the illustrated magazines not only as a subject matter but also as a tool of gendered self-reflection, particularly in the work of female writers, illustrators, and photographers.
- Organisation(s)
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English Department
- Type
- Article
- Journal
- Journal of European Periodical Studies
- Volume
- 7
- Pages
- 52-73
- No. of pages
- 22
- ISSN
- 2506-6587
- Publication date
- 07.2022
- Publication status
- Published
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), History, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory
- Electronic version(s)
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https://doi.org/10.21825/jeps.84787 (Access:
Open)
