Reading Celebrity Gossip Magazines

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Laurel Forster

Dr Laurel Forster’s research interests are in women’s cultural history and the representation of gender in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She has published on a variety of subjects including: gender politics and activism, the domestic sphere and food cultures, war zones, literary modernism and literary genres. Her recent monograph 5 reflects her specialism in periodical studies and is called Magazine Movements: Women’s Culture, Feminisms and Media Form, and discusses a range of politicallyoriented magazines for women from the 1930s onwards. Laurel runs the MA Media and Communications degree at the University of Portsmouth, as well as lecturing on undergraduate programmes and tutoring PhD students. She is currently writing another 10 book on the political influence of magazine cultures and editing a history of British Women’s Print Media for Edinburgh University Press.