Gender, Pseudonyms, and Anonymity in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture
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Description
Mariam Zarif uncovers a hidden chapter in the history of the women's press: the role of male editors who, writing under female pseudonyms, shaped the voices of mass-market women's magazines at the turn of the twentieth century.
Focusing on penny weeklies and popular periodicals, Zarif reveals how publications that appeared to amplify women's voices were often strategically curated by men. These editorial masquerades complicate the understanding of gendered authorship and reveal the subtle mechanisms through which femininity was constructed, marketed, and contested in print. Drawing on extensive archival research and previously overlooked editorial correspondence, advertisements, and reader contributions, this book explores how editors such as Arnold Bennett and Fitzroy Gardner adopted pseudonymous “female” identities to engage with a growing female readership. Zafir reframes women's magazines not simply as ideological tools or platforms for progress, but as dynamic, contradictory spaces where domestic ideals coexisted with reformist ambitions, and where gender was both performed and policed.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Making of a Feminized Editorial Voice
2. The Making of the Woman Reader: Address, Audience, and the Women's Press in the 1890s
3. Who Speaks When Woman Speaks?
4. Arnold Bennett and the Commercialization of Feminine Authority
5. Between Domesticity and Modernity: The Limits of Editorial Masquerade
Conclusion: Voice, Visibility, and the Afterlives of Editorial Disguise
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Product details
| Published | Feb 04 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 232 |
| ISBN | 9798216395225 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 6 b/w illustrations |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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