Pornography for Women, or What They Don't Show you in Cosmo!
Smith, Clarissa (2007) Pornography for Women, or What They Don't Show you in Cosmo! Journalism Studies, 8 (4). pp. 529-538. ISSN 1461-670X
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Abstract
This paper introduces For Women magazine, one of five sexually explicit titles launched in 1992 aimed at women readers. It is often claimed that women have little interest in pornography and the lack of success of these top-shelf titles appears to support those claims. Yet this tells us very little about the commercial and professional decisions to target female readers, nor does it tell us anything about the publishers’ attempts to provide a sufficiently female experience of heterosexual sex that would persuade women to forget their “innate” distaste for explicit representations. Drawing on interviews with editorial staff, this paper explores the production and development of For Women magazine alongside the editorial team's efforts to reconcile the contents of the magazine with the shifting concerns of potential advertisers, stockists and readers.
Keywords: identity, pornography, sexuality, taste, women
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | Media > Journalism and Public Relations Media > Media and Cultural Studies Culture Media |
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries > School of Media and Communications |
Depositing User: | Clarissa Smith |
Date Deposited: | 24 Nov 2016 15:07 |
Last Modified: | 18 Dec 2019 15:40 |
URI: | http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/6814 |
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