Feminism, UK Women’s Magazines and the Women who Created Them, 1975-1992

This book analyses how reproductive rights and sexual freedoms, the political sphere, women’s role in the workplace and sexual violence were positioned and depicted by three magazines with very different demographics: Spare Rib, Cosmopolitan and Woman’s Own . The 1970s and 1980s were a time of enormous cultural shifts for women: The rise of the feminist Women’s Liberation Movement, ground-breaking equality legislation and greater reproductive freedoms impacted on most women’s lives in a plethora