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Acton, Carol - Best Boys and Aching Hearts: The Rhetoric of Romance as Social Control in Wartime Magazines for Young Women
Keywords:
aching heart | best boy | Our Girls | romance | The Girl's Friend | wartime magazines | young women
ISFWWS-Keywords:
Britain | Women and War | Literature | Society | Politics | Masculinity | Gender | Home fronts | Culture
Abstract:
Two very similar weekly one-penny magazines, The Girl’s Friend and Our Girls, targeting working- and lower middle-class girls in the fifteen-to-twenty age group with their combination of advice columns, fas…