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Best Boys and Aching Hearts: The Rhetoric of Romance as Social Control in Wartime Magazines for Young Women
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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, fa…