Women's press

The development of a women’s press transnationally can only be understood within specific contexts and alongside specific multinational trends, influences, events, and the growth, even vicissitudes of collective consciousness. This chapter argues that the scale of growth in the newspaper market of which women’s press formed part can only be fully acknowledged in the context of the transnational landscape from the mid-nineteenth century onward, when there was a notable blurring of the boundaries between magazines and newspapers and therefore an appreciable cross over in readerships The landscape encompassed an exchange and copying of ideas and new developments to such an extent that it is not always possible to attribute ‘firsts’ to individual organizations, publications or even countries. Additionally, manifestations of gender awareness in print are never purely spatial, that is confined to specific countries or places, they are also emotional, economic, temporal, and they interact or overlap with other themes in media history.