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Periodical FeminismsForm and Feeling in UK Women's Movement Magazines

By Victoria Bazin and Melanie Waters

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About this book

Periodical Feminisms investigates the unique role of feminist magazines in shaping the diverse moods and modes of women’s activism from 1968 to the present day.
  • Showcases the diversity of women’s activism in the UK
  • Demonstrates how feminist magazines create activist communities and identities
  • Uses affect theory to offer new insights into how periodicals forge activist communities and identities
  • Examines how media technologies both reflect and shape feminist debate
In this book, the authors bring to light an exciting range of previously unexplored material from feminist periodicals, in addition to original interviews with the women who made and read them, as they examine the dynamic relationship between feelings, politics and social change. From anger and loneliness to joy and hope, this book makes a powerful case for understanding the shared and contested feelings that have mobilised generations of women activists in the UK.

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Through its focus on affect–expressions of hope, anger, loneliness and joy–in feminist periodicals after 1968, Periodical Feminisms: Form and Feeling in UK Women’s Movement Magazines sheds new light on this important (and increasingly relevant) archive, while offering fresh, inspiring methods of study for scholars of feminist print.
Table of contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
A Note on Feminist Feelings

Introduction: Feminist Periodicals and the UK Women’s Liberation Movement
Victoria Bazin and Melanie Waters

1. Mediating Feminist Affect in the 1970s
Victoria Bazin and Melanie Waters

2.Turning to Hope
Victoria Bazin

3.Anger and Activism in Feminist Periodicals
Melanie Waters

4.Loneliness
Eleanor Careless

5.The Joyful Resistance of Feminist Magazines
Melanie Waters

Coda
Melanie Waters

Bibliography

About the contributors

Victoria Bazin

Victoria Bazin is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Northumbria University, England. She is the author of Modernism Edited: Marianne Moore and the Dial Magazine (2019) and Marianne Moore and the Cultures of Modernity (2010).

Melanie Waters

Melanie Waters is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Northumbria University, England. She is the author, with Rebecca Munford, of Feminism and Popular Culture (2013) and the editor of Women on Screen: Feminism and Femininity in Visual Culture (2011).

Eleanor Careless

Eleanor Careless is a Research Fellow at the British School at Rome. She is the author of Incarceration in the Poetry of Anna Mendelssohn: Serve your own Sentences (2025) and of articles published in College Literature, New Formations, Modernist Cultures, and Women: A Cultural Review.