Following up on the success of all the women's magazines activities last week, we're sharing snapshots of ads, covers, and features from the spread of magazines we had out for browsing. The content represented in these photos was identified as interesting by the activity participants. Seeing all the photos together gives you an idea of the fun we had engaging with apparel how-tos, fashion and cigarette ads, cartoon advice, interior decorating, and personal essays. It gives you an idea of the variety of what can be called "women's magazines."
Showing posts with label HERstory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HERstory. Show all posts
Friday, March 22, 2024
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Women's Magazines for Women's History Month
Around these parts we call it HERstory--the SFPL term used to describe Women's History Month. This week the Magazines and Newspapers Center hosted two in-person programs inviting patrons to come together to read women's magazines spanning 150 years.
Pssst... the magazine spread included Playgirl, which was no small fact. Instagram audiences went wild for the big reveal, and the San Francisco Standard, a local news website, sent their culture reporters to paw through the volumes.
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| SF Standard article about Women's Magazines and Playgirl at SFPL |
We hope you can join us on Friday, March 15 for the final installment of the women's magazines and feminism program, but if you can't, see below for the title list, access options, and a short bibliography.
There's also a pop-up exhibit of Playgirl magazines by the 5th floor elevators. Check it out before the end of March when it will be de-installed.
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Saturday, February 24, 2024
Activity: Women’s Magazines and Feminism, 19th Century to the Present
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Activity: Women’s Magazines and Feminism, 19th Century to the Present
Learning Studio—5th Floor, Main Library
Tuesday, March 12, 12:30-1:30 p.m. &
Friday, March 15, 12:30-1:30 p.m. (Encore)
This exact activity is offered twice.
Interact with a curated selection of women’s magazines from the library’s collection in this hands-on activity covering more than 150 years of publishing in the United States.
For your awe and interrogation, fifteen different women’s magazines from the 1850s to 2020s invite your analysis. Learn about milestone moments in the history of publishing women’s magazines from a Magazines and Newspapers Center librarian. Following a librarian-created checklist, trace concepts of gender roles, feminine beauty and fashion, suffrage, women’s liberation and feminism through the spread of magazines both commercial and independent. Identify variations in editorial tone and graphic representation and question the motivation of each publication for embodying its respective attributes. Receive guidance on accessing the print issues of each magazine featured in the workshop through the library’s holdings, as well as how to access and view digitized versions of the magazines through the library’s website.
You are encouraged to bring your smartphone to snap photos of magazine content to share with other participants through the course of the activity.
Magazine titles include:
- Ladies’ American Magazine
- Godey’s Lady’s Book
- Ladies’ Home Journal
- Good Housekeeping
- Essence
- McCall’s
- Better Homes & Gardens
- Up from Under
- Playgirl Magazine
- Bitch
- Ms. Magazine
- Harper’s Bazaar
- Women's Sports & Fitness
- Women’s Wear Daily
- Vogue
- Oprah Magazine
Some photos from the librarian preparing for the program are below. Can you guess which decade of of them are from?
See event listing on the master calendar:
View other Magazines and Newspapers Center programs on the SFPL event calendar under the What's News heading.
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