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Women’s magazines and similar forms of popular culture have been variously conceived as forms of escapism, a means of disarming challenge to the status quo through the vicarious satisfaction of needs and desires, or, in the case of women’s magazines, a paradoxical format embodying women’s work and leisure.
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Allatt, P. (1996). The Political Economy of Romance: Popular Culture, Social Divisions and Social Reconstruction in Wartime. In: Holland, J., Adkins, L. (eds) Sex, Sensibility and the Gendered Body. Explorations in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24536-9_3
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