This volume takes a critical discourse approach to the ways women's magazines contribute to the social construction of particular kinds of female body - as idea

Laurence Talairach-Vielmas explores Victorian representations of femininity in fairy tales and sensation novels by authors such as George MacDonald, Lewis Carro

Women in the first decades of the 21st century encounter competing ideologies of femininity. This book traces the existence of two such ideologies â " traditio

Should women be priests? Should women submit to their husbands? Is premarital sex okay? Inflammatory questions such as these have splintered Christianity and po

Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America explores the ways in which women in the years following World War II refashioned their bo