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Off Our Backs was founded in January 1970 [5] by Marlene Wicks and Marilyn Salzman Webb in Washington, D.C. [4] [3] The original funding for the periodical came from $1000 that was collected to start an anti-Vietnam War coffee house, with the idea for the paper stemming from frustration about the lack of news about the women’s liberation movement in mainstream media.
In its early years it placed women's rights and social problems firmly in the foreground. Its first "agony aunt" was Leonora Eyles. [3] It remains one of the UK's most popular women's magazines and is published by Future plc. The magazine includes articles on celebrity gossip, real-life stories, fashion, beauty, shopping deals, wellbeing, food ...
McClure's or McClure's Magazine (1893–1929) was an American illustrated monthly periodical popular at the turn of the 20th century. [1] The magazine is credited with having started the tradition of muckraking journalism (investigative, watchdog, or reform journalism), and helped direct the moral compass of the day.
Three sections—News and Fiction, Homemaking, Style and Beauty—had their own cover, and each contained ads tailored to its contents. [7] A survey was conducted that showed fiction was a major attraction for female magazine readers, and in 1937 McCall's became the first women's magazine to print a complete novel in one issue. [8]
Mademoiselle was a women's magazine first published in 1935 by Street & Smith [1] and later acquired by Condé Nast Publications.. Mademoiselle, primarily a fashion magazine, was also known for publishing short stories by popular authors including Truman Capote, Joyce Carol Oates, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath, Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles ...
Madonna has appeared on more covers than any other female with a total of 23 times as of 2018, either alone or in a "collage" cover; [2] or dozen alone between 1984 and 2009. [ 3 ] This is a portal to a series of articles, separated by decades, listing the people who have appeared on issue covers of Rolling Stone since it premiered in 1967.
Conditions of Women, Treatments for Women, and Women’s Cosmetics are usually referred to collectively as The Trotula. They cover topics from childbirth to cosmetics, relying on varying sources from Galen to oral traditions, providing practical instructions. These works vary in both organization and content.
A mother wearing a kapp. A kapp (/kɒp/, Pennsylvania German from German Kappe meaning cap, cover, hood) is a Christian headcovering worn by many women of certain Anabaptist Christian denominations (especially among Amish, Mennonites, Schwarzenau Brethren and River Brethren of the Old Order Anabaptist and Conservative Anabaptist traditions), as well as certain Conservative Friends and Plain ...