Shaping Our Mothers' World - American Women's Magazines

The ideal of contented, domestic women was far from monolithic in mid-twentieth century periodical literature. Nancy A. Walker''s analysis of a wide range of magazines reveals their depiction of a broad, full image of womanhood. As she notes a reflection of complex debates about the nature of domestic life in the 1940s and 1950s, she perceives editorial policies that mixed the banalities with urgent actualities.