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The conference is taking place in the John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Kingston University. The exception is the conference dinner, in the

Picton Room of the Main Building (

http://www.kingston.ac.uk/aboutkingstonuniversity/location/maps/documents/PenrhynRoadCampus.pdf).

FRIDAY

0930 – 1000

Registration and refreshments (Room 4010)

1000 – 1015

Welcome (Room 4007)

1015 – 1105

Panel 1 Women in left- and ring-wing

periodicals during the Cold War era

(Room 4007) Chair: Jay Kleinberg

Sinead McEneaney

Righting women in the 1960s: gender, power

and conservatism in

New Guard

Susanne Sklepek-Hatton

‘Bringing the Communist Project Back on Track’:

Excerpts from Women’s Magazine VLASTA after

1969

Panel 2 Negotiating new roles for

women in the interwar period

(Room 4008) Chair: Katherine Holden

Fiona Hackney

‘From One Woman to Another’:

‘feminine class consciousness’ and the

interwar agony page

Karla Huebner

Women’s Magazines in Interwar

Czechoslovakia

Panel 3 Women’s magazines and

medico-health issues

(Room 4009) Chair: Tracey Loughran

Cynthia Ryan

Self

Surveillance: Normalizing Breast

Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment in

Women’s Magazines

Ayana Weekley

Producing Respectable Women: Analysis

of HIV/AIDS Coverage in

Ebony and

Essence

1105 – 1130

Refreshment break (Room 4010)

1130 – 1220

Panel 4 Using women’s magazines:

methodological reflections

(Room 4007) Chair: Sue Hawkins

Anna Luker Gilding

The magazine as public space? Rethinking early

American women’s magazines

Tracey Loughran

Landscape for a Good

Woman’s Weekly:

Finding Magazines in British History and

Culture, c. 1950-1980

Panel 5 Depictions of women and

femininity: two case studies

(Room 4008) Chair: Fiona Hackney

Cigdem Akanyildiz

Popular Feminism and the

Contemporary Construction of

Femininity in Popular Women’s

Magazines in Turkey in 1990s

Barbara Mitra and Mehreen Mirza

Gendered images, gendered ideology.

Panel 6 Dress and femininity in

women’s magazines

(Room 4009) Chair: Rachel Ritchie

Keren Ben-Honin

The Reign of the Lingerie Dress, 1900-

1910

Heather Vaughan

Icon: The Shirtwaist Dress in

Good

Housekeeping

and other media

2

An exploration of gender in the images

of

Kays Catalogue from 1920-2000

1220 – 1310

Panel 7 Discourses of humour in women’s

magazines

(Room 4007) Chair: Sinead McEneaney

Jane Marcellus

Consider the Office Cat: Humor in a US Feminist

Magazine during the 1920s

Aleksandra Izgarjan & Diana Prodanovic-Stankic

Gender Identity as Expressed in Humorous

Discourse in Popular Women’s Magazines

Panel 8 Women as writers

(Room 4008) Chair: Nicola Phillips

Gretchen Galbraith

‘Corresponding with men’: Exploring the

significance of Constance Maynard’s

magazine writing, 1905-1919

Alice Wood

Resisting Gendered Cultural Boundaries:

Women Writers in Interwar British

Women’s Magazines

Panel 9 Advertising targeting women in

the mid C20th

(Room 4009) Chair: Rachel Ritchie

Rochelle Pereira

“Make Any Occasion a Special Event”:

Hospitality, Domesticity and Female

Cordial Consumption, 1950-1969

Olga Khomenko

Women’s magazines and the process of

«constructing of new women» in postwar

Japan: cosmetic advertising 1955-

1979

1310 – 1410

Lunch (tbc)

1410 – 1455

Plenary Noliwe Rooks: Black Women and ‘Real Beauty’: The Rise and Fall of the Dove Beauty Campaign

(Room 4002) Chair: Nicola Phillips

1455 – 1610

Panel 10 Women as editors

(Room 4007) Chair: Fiona Hackney

Victoria Bazin

‘Miss Moore’ at

The Dial: Gender, Modernism

and Magazine Culture

Jayne Shacklady

Flora Klickmann’s Editorial Interventions in

The

Girl’s Own Paper

Laurel Forster

The War, The Housewife and a feminist Editor

Panel 11 Mid C20th fashion

(Room 4008) Chair: Rachel Ritchie

Anna Rachael Lebovic

Flights of Fashion: Jet Age Globalization

in American

Vogue, 1958 -1970

Spiegel: How to Be Lovely: Discursive

Trends in Fashion Editorials from 1930-

1960

Jennifer Farley

“Mom ‘n You are a Pair – the Women of

Panel 12 Targetting specific racial

groups

(Room 4009) Chair: Sinead McEneaney

Lizeth Gutierrez

¡Controla tus curvas, chica!

: Latina

Magazine and the homogenizing of

Latinas and

Latinidad

Dawn-Marie Gibson

Virtue Today Magazine

: Subverting

Myths and Reproducing Oppression

3

the House”: Mother-Daughter Fashion in

the Ladies’ Home Journal, 1930s - 1960s

Poonkulaly Gunaseelan

“Asiana: For the Asian woman who

wants more (?)” : The representations of

Beauty and Marriage in

Asiana Magazine

1610 – 1635

Refreshment break (Room 4010)

1635 – 1750

NB The ‘Bodies

and Beauty’ panel

will go on until

1815

Panel 13 Women as writers

(Room 4007) Chair: Dawn-Marie Gibson

Martha E. Cook

Ellen Glasgow and

Good Housekeeping: A Study

of Cultural Context

Alexandria Hoffman

Lady Duff Gordon (“Lucile”), and the Emergence

of the New American Woman Through the lens

of

Good Housekeeping and Harper’s Bazaar

Sue Currell

‘“Housewives are Simply Wonderful”: Women

and Communism in

New Masses magazine

(1926-48)

Panel 14 Romance, love & relationships

(Room 4008) Chair: Helen Glew

Lucy Brown

‘Our Crazy Kind of Loving’: Women as

Celebrity Wives and Lovers in British

Magazines, c. 1955-1975

Elizabeth Lovegrove

‘Chase him till he catches you’: how to

get a boyfriend according to

Jackie

magazine in 1964

Niamh Cullen: ‘Grand Hotel’ and the

representation of courtship and love in

1950s Italy

Panel 15 Bodies and beauty

(Room 4008) Chair: Sue Hawkins

Diana Reinhard

Selling an Ounce of Prevention:

Advertising, Health, and the Female

Body in Early Twentieth-Century

American Magazines

Carina Spaulding

Weaving the Strands of Success in

American Black Hair Magazines

Jocelynne A Scutt

The body between the pages – neither

our bodies nor ourselves?

Amanda L Hinnant

How

Ladies’ Home Journal did secondwave

health, 1968-1975

1750 – 1830

Opportunity to visit exhibition stands

1830

Conference dinner, Picton Room

SATURDAY

0900 – 1015

Panel 16 Employment in women’s magazines

(Room 4007) Chair: Nicola Phillips

Panel 17 Women and magazines in the

First World War

(Room 4008) Chair: Sue Hawkins

Panel 18 Women and advertising

(Room 4009) Chair: Carina Spaulding

4

Helen Glew

Married women’s employment in British and

Canadian women’s magazines after 1945

Katherine Holden

Nanny knows best? married mothers and

single nannies in

Nursery World in early and

mid twentieth century Britain

Sandra Sanchez Lopez

The Promise of a Wealthy and Stratified

Society: Women’s Work in Women’s

Magazines, Colombia 1943-1945

Katy Conover

War in Conflict: World War I, Haute

Couture, and the Fashionable Body

Michele M. Curran

“With One Idea: To Make Money:” The

Ladies’ Home Journal

and Women’s

Employment, 1917-1920

Ida Ograjšek Gorenjak

The Great War in the mirror of Women´s

Magazines of The Kingdom of Serbs,

Croats and Slovenes

Trevor Millum

Images of Woman: Beyond Words –

visual communication in advertising

1970-2012

Carmen Fernandez Martin

Porno-chic in women’s magazines,

comparing English and Spanish

advertising in written media

Jacqueline Granleese

Celebrity Endorsed Advertisements in UK

Women’s Magazines: Why Have the

Black Celebrity Endorsers Disappeared?

1015 – 1040

Refreshment break (Room 4010)

1040 – 1130

Panel 19 Women and sexuality in the late

C19th and early C20th

(Room 4007) Chair: Jocelynne Scutt

Lisa Z. Sigel

London Life

and Women’s Sexual History in

Inter-War Britain

Sarah Jones

‘The Journal of Sex’: Women, sex radicalism and

free love in ‘The Adult’, 1897-1899.

Panel 20 The position of the reader in

women’s magazines

(Room 4008) Chair: Dawn-Marie Gibson

Deborah Smith

Reflections on an integrated coffee

table: What the historic record reveals

about one reader of

Ebony magazine

Caitriona Clear

‘At Last Our Own Magazine’:

Woman’s

Way

, women and change in Ireland

1963-1973

Panel 21 The All-American Girl and

Women’s Magazines

(Room 4009) Chair: Jay Kleinberg

Orsolya Szabó

Explaining Kate Middleton to an

American: The Reception of the Duchess

of Cambridge in

Vanity Fair and People

Cheyanne Cortez

The

Ladies’ American Girl

1130 – 1230

Panel 22 Women and sexuality in the second

half of the C20th

(Room 4007) Chair: Jocelynne Scutt

Panel 23 Inside & behind two bestselling

title:

Woman and Woman’s

Weekly

(Room 4008) Chair: Helen Glew

Panel 24 Celebrity and C21st Culture

(Room 4009) Chair: Carina Spaulding

Leander Reeves

5

Megan Le Masurier

Cleo

magazine, popular feminism and the

second wave

Natalina Lodato

A brand new “sentimental education”: the

history of

Duepiù (1968-1984)

Rachel Ritchie

Young Women in

Woman:

Representations of youthful femininity in

the “world’s greatest weekly for

women”, 1954-1969

Clare Jenkins

Woman’s Weekly: Famed For Its Knitting

The Philosopher, the Magazines, the

Glamour Model and her Avatar

Hannah Yelin

Open Secrets: OK! Magazine and the

Perpetual Revelation of Celebrity

1230 – 1330

Lunch (tbc)

1330 – 1430

Plenary Penny Tinkler

(Room 4002) Chair: Sue Hawkins

1430 – 1545

Panel 25 Vogue: past, present and future

(Room 4007) Chair: Nicola Phillips

Amanda Carrod

The Lady Who Dare Not Speak Her Name; the

Under-Cover Voice of Dorothy Todd in British

Vogue

, 1922-1926

Marianne Brown:

CONDE NAST ARCHIVE and

Vogue scanning

project

Victoria Pass: Encountering Africa in

Vogue

Panel 26 Magazines for teenage girls

(Room 4009) Chair: Rachel Ritchie

Fan Carter

A taste of

Honey: the making the

teenage girl in 1960s British magazines

Nancy Rosoff

“It’s easy as 1-2-3”: Gender Ideology

and American Teenage Girl in

Co-ed

Magazine

Orna Raz

Mother Tells you How: the mother as a

role model in

Girl Magazine1953—1960

1545 - 1610

Refreshments and farewells (Room 4010)