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The popular weekly is a thriving business and seems due for expansion, the author found in 1952-53 while serving as a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Florence. Professor of Journalism at Minnesota, Mr. Charnley is an experienced magazine writer and editor, and author of a textbook in this field.

This essay analyses a range of British women's weekly magazines commonly referred to as 'Women's Weeklies'. Examples of these texts include Pick-Me-Up, Take-a-Break, Real People, and Closer. Unlike more widely researched magazines such as Cosmopolitan or Glamour, the women's weeklies draw their readership based on the supposed autobiographical nature of the narratives, which in turn generates the 'authenticity' attributed to personal narratives. In this essay I analyse the personal narratives of the weeklies within the wider public sphere, arguing that such personal narratives render women's weeklies relevant in political debate. The essay demonstrates how the individual narratives of social history and autobiography have become generalized and are thus circulated as evidence of something shared in the larger social and political climate. The aim is not to explain what happens to specific aesthetically mediated subjects as equivalent to what happens to people, but rather to unpack the affective scenarios of women's weeklies' narratives in order to shed light upon the claims they make about the situation of contemporary life. Drawing on theorists such as Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, I argue that through their use of optimism and affect the articles perpetuate the fantasy of the domestic good-life while concurrently, and subconsciously, providing evidence of the violence that heteronormative fantasy enacts. I claim that these articles illustrate the changing form of the family while simultaneously failing to acknowledge it. I demonstrate how they rely on the shared, lived experience of their readers, and as such, use affect to normalize even the most sensational of narratives. Ultimately, I query their insistence on securing futurity and the good-life through reproduction and family, postulating how these texts may be re-appropriated to call for a social and political shift away from the family.

Copy of magazine cover, The Continent Weekly Magazine, by Albion Winegar Tourgée, 1884-05-07.

As the Covid-19 pandemic caused schools, workplaces, and childcare centres to close, pressures in the home increased. Much of the additional unpaid work required under these conditions was done by women. Most women's magazines at this time urged women to stay positive and develop wellbeing routines to help them flourish. This approach reinforces normative neoliberal subjectivity with its roots in therapeutic culture and the happiness industry. While the focus on self-care may seem empowering, it puts more pressure on women in times of upheaval. Based on a thematic analysis of pandemic-related content in Australia's most popular women's magazine, The Australian Women's Weekly, we identified three key themes: 'finding the silver lining', 'making lifestyle choices', and 'recognising hardships and social divides'. While self-responsibilising discourses were prominent, some articles acknowledged the broader structural issues impacting women, revealing a tension between competing discourses.

Vol. 5, "consisting of the Monitor, Plain-dealer, North Briton, Auditor, Briton, Patrio, etc., entire." ; At head of title: Dedicated to the British Senate. ; Issue for June 27, 1763 (v. 4, no. 11) incorrectly numbered v. 5, no. 11 and bound at end of v.5. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Bound with this title is The Fortnight's register.