Women's magazines and "problem pages" of the 1950s and 60s

What were women reading for relaxation and entertainment during the 1950s and 60s? Find out more with Dr Caitríona Clear in this intriguing talk about women’s magazines of the period. Caitríona is the author of Women’s Voices in Ireland: women’s magazines in the 1950s and 60s and has written extensively on women and rural Ireland, household work and homemakers during the decades following independence.


Recorded at the Studio Theatre, dlr Lexicon on Mon 15, April 2019.

Listen back on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dlr-soundcloud/womens-magazines-and-problem-pages-of-the-1950s-and-60s

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