For, By, With, Against? Women's Shaky Position in Magazines

An edited collection that emerged from a homonymous conference, Women in Magazines (2016) is a potpourri of 15 thought-provoking papers examining “racial and ethnic identities, second wave feminism and married women’s employment” in relation to magazines (p. 18). Divided into five sections, the chapters could hardly be distilled into a single theme. Perhaps the best synopsis of the book is that “the relationship between women and magazines is characterized by ambiguity and tensions” (p. 17).