Saturday, 13 October 2018

Essay - Potential Themes and Summer Reading

Potential Themes:
  • How much did the aesthetic of zines contribute to their popularity?
  • How do modes of feminist publication compare to those made in past waves of feminism? E.g. scrap-booking, pamphlets.
  • How does participatory media compare to mainstream media within the representation of women?
  • How have the production methods of publications aimed at women evolved over time and effect their content and style? 
  • Is the history of women's magazines important or is it an ever evolving trade?
  • How do women's publications of the past compare to current trends?
  • Will magazines continue to survive within the age of the internet?
Things to look up:
  • Mimeograph Printing - was used in the initial printing of feminist documents. Could I recreate?
  • Quimby's (Zine/alt-publishing house) 
  • Tobi Vail's Jigsaw Manifesto. 
  • Insubordinate Creativity 
  • Victimaisation and agency, complicity and resistance
  • 19th Century scrapbooks
  • Fordism 
  • Spare Rib - Feminist Magazine 
Initial Reading:

Inside Women's Magazines by Janice Winship
Girl Zines by Alison Piepmeier
Feminist Media Studies by Van Zoonen
Gender and the Media by Rosalind Gill
Interrogating Postfeminsim: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture by Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra

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