Comparing Godeys Lady's Book, And Ladies American Magazine

Within the 19th century American atmosphere, is a realm of cultural tropes that distinguishes themselves among the common literature that people read. Among these people, are different demographics as each publication caters to a specific audience on the basis of race, gender, and residing region. While the readers of these publications come from varying backgrounds and belief systems, there are unique similarities that provide insight as to how people were reading in the 19th century. These similarities contextualize what these readers were looking for in these publications as well as their interests and habits in respect to the demographics represented in the periodical archive.

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Children, Marriage and Love are the three main factors of the two short stories, “A Sorrowful Woman” by Gail Godwin, and “A Secret Sorrow” by Karen van der Zee. Two relationships at risk because of children. Neither of them know what to do but try to find solutions to solve their problems. They end up having different outcomes.

The article, The Cult of Womanhood: 1820 - 1860 written by Barbara Welter discusses the philosophy towards women in America during the mid 19th century. A set of demands and expectations based upon four principles: piety, purity, submission and domesticity were placed on women as well as certain behavioral expectations left 19th century women feeling guilty. It also left women feeling this way during the industrialization period as well as having a huge presence of incompatibility with society. Welter shares her viewpoint that the Cult of Womanhood was an attempt to preserve pre modern values in the industrial age. Men held a dominant place in society and continued to prevent new opportunities for women to explore. Narrow minded

magazine was first thought up because of the lack of work written for women and by women. On March 18, 1970, about a hundred women stormed into the male editor’s office of Ladies’ Home Journal and staged a sit-in for eleven hours, demanding that the magazine hire a female editor-in-chief. The first proposed titles included Everywoman, Sojourner, Sisters, Lilith, and The Majority. It was finally created by Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes and originally appeared as an insert in New York magazine, but the first real issue came out in December of 1971. New York magazine editor Chet Felker helped them fund the first official

Magazines were a source of both information and entertainment for the masses, dating back to the mid-eighteenth century in the

Have you ever thought about what people back in the day read in their spare time since we all just immediately get on our phones? I compared and contrasted the August 2015 Time magazine, and the June 4th 1864 edition of Harper’s Weekly. I have come to the realization that when people say times have changed, they are not kidding. It is crazy to read in between the lines and see how Americans lived over 150 years ago. The way things are placed and discussed are very different in both Harper’s Weekly and Time Magazine, but the two are similar in some ways also.

Flannery O’Connor’s “The Nature and Aim of Fiction,” and Nabokov’s “Good Readers and Good Writers,” both authors discuss the element of truth in their essays on fiction, however in O’Connor’s blueprint to writing fiction she states that the writer should dive into the truth in their stories with fiction. This is a contrast to Nabokov’s ideology, because he says that “Every great writer is a great deceiver, but so is that arch-cheat Nature. Nature always deceives,” (Nabokov). This contrast in their essays presents a difference in O’Connor’s and Nabokov’s view on the element of truth in fiction.

If people could not afford a radio or were not able to go to the cinema then magazines were their next options. In that time period, magazines were a glimpse of the Hollywood glam life for the average American. Magazines either had pictures of drunken celebrities leaving speakeasies or tragic news coverage of our country’s plummeting economy due to the Great Depression. Even if our country was in a depressing state, magazines were the best way to enlighten its viewers. For example, Vogue was an extremely popular magazine.

Around 1850 “Godey’s Lady’s Book,” was the most subscribed magazine that was meant for women. It gives women all sorts’ information from many different contributors to the magazine on varies subjects. With this magazine being market towards women mostly one would assume that most of the information contain in the magazine would be empowering women. They had Sarah Josepha Hale as the editor for the magazine and with help from a man name Louis Godey as the other editor. Luis Godey saw the economic potential in creating illustration that market varies women products, while Sarah Hale was more focus on feminine values.

Each magazine has a unique audience that they target in order gain subscriptions. Culture can influence which magazine a person would choose to pick off the shelf. When flipping through the Southern Home magazine, one could deduce that this magazine is geared toward upper-class southern woman. The Southern Home magazine has an expensive taste in furniture and is filled with luxurious pictures of beautiful homes.

On another note, we can also see how this magazine attracts women. Most women care for clothes and jewelry, others care for the artistic aspect of another culture. I’ve scanned through the entire magazine, and I have not seen a gadget that a man might be interested in, which is why we can infer that women are most likely to be the audience that this magazine aims to attract.

Technology can be our friend or our worst enemy. In Forbes’ The Stepford Wives and in Peele’s film, Get Out, both directors have a central idea of reconstructing our society for it to best suited for us, as individuals. Unless you knew going in that both of these movies were in the genre of Horror, you wouldn’t be expecting it, more in The Stepford Wives than in Get Out. However the interesting part about both of these works is that they both have an oddly similar theory behind them, and it leads the viewer to believe that The Stepford Wives could have been an inspiration for Get Out, unless you already knew that after hearing Peele’s interview stating that it was. Both of the works use technology and science in a way that by the end of both works the viewer is shocked, at least I was.

Magazine became a great relief to all feminists by giving them a sense of self-determination and hope for the women’s movement.

The three main categories were women’s magazines, men’s magazines, and magazines that appealed to the general interest. Döring and Pöschl (2006) found that 54.8% of pictures of women in the general interest magazines were depicted. Generally, magazines either advertised certain products using people, or have a page for certain celebrities. It was rare to read a magazine that does not have a picture of a woman in it. Pictures of women can be interpreted more thoroughly by not only judging the sexuality of the ladies, but the overall condition the women were