Comments on: Femininity and feminism, and a magazine called Skirt! http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2007/03/29/femininity-and-feminism-and-a-magazine-called-skirt/ Honey Bowtie Music blog: where sticky songs meet (occasionally) overdressed ideas. Sweet. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:48:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: mycropht http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2007/03/29/femininity-and-feminism-and-a-magazine-called-skirt/#comment-532 mycropht Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:21:59 +0000 http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2007/03/29/femininity-and-feminism-and-a-magazine-called-skirt/#comment-532 I've never worked in magazine publishing, but I have worked in book publishing. And I've gotten the SERIOUS impression that the general clique of magazine publishing is highly geared toward the fashion/beauty realm. Any progressive articles are the granola in the yogurt. Myrna Blythe's Spin Sisters is a valuable book about the topic, if you can leave aside the political agenda. (It purports to be an expose of 'liberal media bias' in women's magazines. I got more that women's magazine publishing is a sort of groupthink that exists well beyond the realm of the political.) I’ve never worked in magazine publishing, but I have worked in book publishing.

And I’ve gotten the SERIOUS impression that the general clique of magazine publishing is highly geared toward the fashion/beauty realm. Any progressive articles are the granola in the yogurt.

Myrna Blythe’s Spin Sisters is a valuable book about the topic, if you can leave aside the political agenda. (It purports to be an expose of ‘liberal media bias’ in women’s magazines. I got more that women’s magazine publishing is a sort of groupthink that exists well beyond the realm of the political.)

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