Womens Magazines

Show Us Your 'Beachy Waves'

Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Summer Style, Summer Hair, Wavy Hair, Beachy Waves, Women's Magazines, Birth of Venus, Lucky Magazine, Hair Styles, Slideexpand, Summer Beauty, Women News
Margaret Wheeler Johnson

I come out of the water looking less 'Birth of Venus' and more Tangled Pale Person.

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Not-So-Sweet Seventeen

Hannah Weintraub | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Womens-Media, Teen Girls, Seventeen Magazine, Teenage Girls, Women and Body Image, Seventeen, Womens-Magazines, High School News
Hannah Weintraub

I've been disillusioned by Seventeen's pixie dust more times than I would like to admit. The magazine manufactures self-doubt so girls will buy the quick-fix products displayed on their glossy pages.

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A Better Way To Represent Women

Chauncey Zalkin | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: June Cohen, Women's Magazines, Women's Issues, European Women, Women in Business, Feminism, Women's Empowerment, Female Leadership, Kazuyo Sejima, Zaha Hadid, Media Criticism, Feminists, Arianna Huffington, Celebrity Magazines, Europe, Women in the Media, Change the Ratio, Female CEOs, Caterina Fake, Women News
Chauncey Zalkin

It's really time to update the look and feel of media for women to fit reality. We can define ourselves thank you very much.

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What Men Lust After in July

Kate Fridkis | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Huffpo Women, Men and Women, What Men Want, Women's Magazines, Kate Fridkis, Women News
Kate Fridkis

Last night, my brother and I were standing at the checkout counter at the CVS, buying batteries for our dad's insulin pump, and a row of magazines was...

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Why The Daily Mail's Femail Is Bad For Women

Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Womens Publications, Page 3, Womens Magazines, Tabloid Newspapers, The Sun, Daily Mail Female, Femail, Daily Mirror, British Tabloids, Women News
Margaret Wheeler Johnson

That tabloid newspapers demean women in a variety of ways is not news. The Sun's Page 3 has been around since 1970, and the sex- and scandal-loaded he...

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17 Things Every Women's Magazine Will Tell You (That You Should Ignore)

The Frenemy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ridicuous Women's Magazines Headlines, Ridiuclous Women's Magazines, Women's Magazines, Things Women's Magazines Tell You, Comedy Slideshow, Slidepollajax, Frenemy, Women's Magazine, Comedy News
The Frenemy

Jennifer Aniston is really hot but she is also very pathetic. We want to have her hairstyle and her arms, but only to carry on her legacy when she dies alone.

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Venus Zine Lives On, But New Owner Rejects Its Feminist Past

Chicago Reader | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago Magazines, Women's Magazines, Riot Grrl, Feminist Magazine, Feminist Music, Sarah Beardsley, Chicago Media, Venus Zine, Venus, Amy Schroeder, Feminism, Chicago News

Amy Schroeder was a 19-year-old women's studies major at Michigan State when she created Venus in 1995. Feminism was the point of her education, and i...

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George Lois: His Formula, Revealed

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Muhammad Ali, Adam Moss, Women's Magazines, Martin Scorsese, George Lois: The Esquire Covers, Esquire, Assouline, George Lois, Sequoia, Andrea Chalupa, Harold Hayes, Harold T. P. Hayes, Sonny Liston, Laguardia, Spy, Andy Warhol, Vogue, Ace Hotel, Kurt Anderson, Vietnam War, Graydon Carter, Luke Lois, Media News
Andrea Chalupa

Many significant artists and great media minds today worship at the Church of George Lois, the legendary art director who captured the turbulent 1960s...

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Women's Magazine Covers As Written By Men: Which Is The Funniest? (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Magazines, Fake Women's Magazine Covers, What Men Think About Women, Slidepoll, Style News

The guys at CoolMaterial.com think women's magazines are "lacking much needed male insights," so they decided to take a handful of headlines and rewri...

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'Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels'

Mihal Freinquel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels, Eating Disorders, Diets, Women's Magazines, Kate Moss, Style News
Mihal Freinquel

I love Kate Moss. This woman is constantly stirring the pot - and not in a Jon & Kate way or a Madonna in the 90's way. No, Moss causes a ruckus simply by being herself and I applaud her for it.

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In Defense of Women's Magazines

Cathy Alter | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Instyle, Liz Jones, Oprah Winfrey, Glamour, Women's Magazines, Vogue, Women's Health, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Healthy Living News
Cathy Alter

For an entire year, I turned my life over to a slew of women's magazines and followed their advice to the letter. And guess what? It worked!

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Time To Have a Little Talk About Those "Women's Magazines?"

Sheila Weller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Caroline Kennedy Women's Magazines, Glamour, Women's Magazines, Readers Digest, Ms., Marie Claire, More, Caroline Kennedy New York Times, Caroline Kennedy, Media News
Sheila Weller

Why, 40 years after the advent of second-wave feminism, are the words "women's magazine" still so automatically a term of mild ridicule?

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Life As Dictated By Women's Magazines: One Woman Puts It To The Test

The Guardian | Tanya Gold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Magazines, Women's Magazine Advice, Style News

I have agreed with my editor that I will emulate Alter, spending a week following the advice of women's magazines - my nemeses. I despise Tatler, Harp...

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