Women's Magazine Archive (Collection 1)
Women's Magazine Archive (Collection 1)
What is it? The Women's Magazine Archive is a primary source for consumer magazines aimed at a female readership through which to interpret multiple aspects of 19th and 20th-century history and culture. Titles included in the archive, inlcuding Good Housekeeping and Ladies' Home Journal, serve as canonical records of evolving assumptions about gender roles and cultural mores. Other titles here focus on narrower topics but deliver source content for specific research areas. Parents, for example, is of particular relevance for research in the fields of children’s education, psychology, and health, as well as reflecting broader social-historical trends.
Women’s Magazine Archive Collection 1 provides access to the complete archives to the following magazines:
Most of these titles were published monthly and the length of the backfile ranges from 29 years to 123 years; each provides material attesting to changing social, historical and cultural trends over a period of many decades.
Why use it? Find consumer magazines aimed at a female readership through which to interpret multiple aspects of 19th and 20th-century history and culture
Coverage: 1883 - 2005
Access: Available on networked computers on the MSU campus in Bozeman and via the proxy server. Unlimited number of simultaneous users.
Vendor: ProQuest
Subjects: Art, Education, Women’s & Gender Studies Core
- Linked Data Topics:
- Gender Studies
- Primary source
- Related Databases:
- American West: Sources from the Everett D. Graff Collection
- North American Indian Thought and Culture
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online Archive
- HathiTrust
- Ancestry Library Edition
Total interactions: 156
Rank: 269 out of 292 databases
Rating: 1 out of 5 (based on 156 out of 2209306 total interactions with all of our databases)
Last updated: 2023-05-22 00:29:12
Permalink: https://www.lib.montana.edu/resources/item/762
