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A 4 page overview of the concept of culture relating from the ideologies presented in magazines. The author notes that while magazine culture can serve the positive function of pulling women together, it can also perpetuate potentially devastating ideologies as well as serve to pit one women’s group against another. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Like males, females have numerous magazines which are specifically targeted to their interests. Whether these magazines specialize in issues surrounding physical health, beauty, homes and gardens, or
any one of a multitude of topics they are geared to womens perceptions of those topics. Many of these topics are quite serious in nature. Sitoy (2001) notes
that the womens magazine culture thrives on the more critical issues concerning women, issues which the:
"feminist movement helped to bring to the fore. And yet, by keeping meaty articles brief and stylish, it manages to leave a reader with the satisfaction of engagement and
a temporary satiety, without interrogating the patriarchal or sexist underpinnings of the myth -- thinness, docility or belligerent sexuality even -- being peddled".
This sometimes creates an entire culture with significant social and psychological significance. One of the primary significances is that women
are bonded together by the culture their magazines have created. Women of like ideologies, professions and interest find themselves drawn closer together as a result of the magazines they
choose to read. This results in the strengthening of the womens voice and societys tendency to stand up and take notice of issues we consider important.
While there are many positives of the womens magazine culture, however, there are also some negatives. One of the more commonly encountered negativities can be
found in the tendency of some magazines to define our cultural idea of beauty. All too often, the idea that is pushed down our throats is that of what
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