A space of One's Own: Women's Magazine Consumption Within Family Life

Lorna M. R. Stevens; Pauline Maclaran; Miriam Catterall

doi:10.1002/cb.219

A space of One's Own: Women's Magazine Consumption Within Family Life

Lorna M. R. Stevens, Pauline Maclaran, Miriam Catterall

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This is a study of women's magazine consumption in the home. It explores issues of time and space, and addresses the importance of magazine consumption in the context of busy lives and 'juggling' lifestyles. The study reveals family life to be a landscape within which women carve out what they perceive as valuable and rare time and space for themselves. The authors argue that in contemporary family life women's magazines play a key part in the quest for 'me time' and time away from others, in both a tangible and experiential sense.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	236-252
Journal	Journal of Consumer Behaviour
Volume	6
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/cb.219
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 1 Jul 2007

Bibliographical note

Reference text: AbelE. (ed.). 1982. Writing and Sexual Difference. The Harvester Press Limited: Brighton, Sussex.
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Ang I. 1996. Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World. Routledge: London.
CrossRefAng I, Hermes J. 1997. Gender and/in media consumption. In Mass Media and Society, CurranJ, GurevitchM (eds). Arnold: London; 325–347.
Ballaster R, Beetham M, Frazer E, Hebron S. 1991. Women's Worlds: Ideology, Femininity and the Woman's Magazine. Macmillan Education Ltd: Basingstoke.
Beck U, Beck-Gernsheim E. 2001. Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequence. Sage: London.
Beetham M. 1996. A Magazine of Her Own? Domesticity and Desire in the Woman's Magazine, 1800–1914. Routledge: London.
Belk RW, Ger G, Askegaard S. 1996. Metaphors of consumer desire. Advances in Consumer Research 23: 368–373.
Web of Science® Times Cited: 7Chodorow NJ. 1978. The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender. University of California: Berkeley, CA.
Web of Science®Creed B. 1998. From here to modernity: feminism and postmodernism. In Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (2nd edn), StoreyJ (ed.). Prentice Hall: Hemel Hempstead; 358–364.
Damon-Moore H. 1994. Magazines for the Millions: Gender and Commerce in the ‘Ladies Home Journal’ and the ‘Saturday Evening Post’ 1880–1910. State University of New York Press: New York.
Driver T. 1991. The Magic of Ritual. HarperCollins: New York.
Ferguson M. 1983. Forever Feminine: Women's Magazines and the Cult of Femininity. Heinemann Educational Books Ltd: London.
Finnegan R. 1997. Storying the self: personal narratives and identity. In Consumption and Everyday Life, MackayH (ed.). The Open University: Milton Keynes; 65–112.
Fish S. 1980. Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA.
Frith S. 1998. The good, the bad, and the indifferent: defending popular culture from the populists. In Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (2nd edn), StoreyJ (ed.). Prentice Hall: Hemel Hempstead; 570–586.
Geraghty C. 1991. Women and Soap Opera: A Study of Prime Time Soap Operas. Polity Press: Cambridge.
Geraghty C. 1997. Representation and popular culture. In Mass Media and Society, CurranJ, GurevitchM (eds). Arnold: London; 265–279.
Geraghty C. 1998. Soap opera and utopia. StoreyJ (ed.). Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (2nd edn), Prentice Hall: Hemel Hempstead; 319–327.
Gray A. 1992. The Gendering of a Leisure Technology. Routledge: London.
CrossRefGrossberg L. 1988. Wandering audiences, nomadic critics. Cultural Studies 2(3): 377–391.
CrossRefHermes J. 1995. Reading Women's Magazines: An Analysis of Everyday Media Use. Polity Press: Cambridge.
Holbrook MB. 1995. Romanticism, subjective personal introspection, and morris the epicurean. Introspective Essays on the Study of Consumption, HolbrookMB (ed.). Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, California.
Holbrook MB, Hirschman EC. 1982. The experiential aspects of consumption: consumer fantasies, feelings and fun. Journal of Consumer Research 9(September): 132–140.
CrossRef,Web of Science® Times Cited: 508Hollows J. 2000. Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture. Manchester University Press: Manchester.
Keynote Report. 2005a. Leisure and recreation market, October [http.//www.keynote reports. ac.uk]
Keynote report. (2005b). Lifestyle magazines, November [http.//www.keynote reports.co.uk]
King P. 2004. Private Dwelling. Routledge: London.
Lash S. 2001. Individualization in a non-linear mode. Foreword to Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequence, BeckU, Beck-GernsheimE (eds). Sage: London; VII–XIII.
Light A. 1984. Returning to Manderley'– romance fiction, female sexuality and class”. Feminist Review 16: 7–25.
CrossRefLury C. 1996. Consumer Culture. Polity Press: Oxford.
McCracken E. 1993. Decoding Women's Magazines from Mademoiselle to Ms. The Macmillan Press Ltd: Basingstoke.
McCracken G. 1988. The Long Interview. Sage Publications, Inc.: Newbury Park.
McRobbie A. 1994. Postmodernism and Popular Culture. Routledge: London.
CrossRefMcRobbie A. 1997. The Es and the anti-Es: new questions for feminism and cultural studies. In Cultural Studies in Question, FergusonM, GoldingP (eds). Sage Publications: London.
Mick DG, DeMoss M. (1990a). Self-gifts: phenomenological insights from four contexts. Journal of Consumer Research 17: 322–332.
CrossRef,Web of Science® Times Cited: 86Mick DG, DeMoss M. (1990b). From me to me: a descriptive phenomenology of self-gifts. Advances in Consumer Research 17: 677–682.
Web of Science® Times Cited: 16Modleski T. 1982. Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-produced fantasies for women. Methuen: London.
Moore S. 1986. Permitted Pleasures, Women's Review 10: 9–10.
Moores S. 1997. Broadcasting and its audiences. In Consumption and Everyday Life, MackayH (ed.). 1997. The Open University: Milton Keynes; 213–258.
Morley D. 2000. Home Territories: Media, Mobility and Identity. Routledge. London.
Morris M. 1998. Feminism, reading, postmodernism. In Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (2nd edn), StoreyJ (ed.). Prentice Hall: Hemel Hempstead; 365–370.
Munro M, Madigan R. 1999. Negotiating space in the family home. In At Home: An Anthropology of Domestic Space, CieraadI (ed.). Syracuse University Press: Syracuse, NY; 107–117.
Murdock G, Hartman P, Gray P. 1995. Contextualising home computing. In The Politics of Domestic Consumption, JacksonS, MooresS (eds). Hemel Hempstead: Harvester.
Nava M. 1987. Consumption and its Contradictions, Cultural Studies 1: No. 2: 204–210.
CrossRefNava M. 1991. Consumerism reconsidered: buying and power. Cultural Studies 5(2): 157–173.
CrossRefNowell-Smith G. 1987. Popular culture. New Formations 2: 79–90.
Oakley A. 1974. The Sociology of Housework. Martin Robertson: London.
Radner H. 1995. Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure. Routledge: London.
Radway JA. 1987. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Feminism. Verso: London.
Rakow LF. 1998. Giving patriarchy its due. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (2nd edn), StoreyJ (ed.). Prentice Hall: Hemel Hempstead; 275–291.
Rook D. 1985. The ritual dimension of consumer behavior. Journal of Consumer Research 12: 251–264.
CrossRef,Web of Science® Times Cited: 100Schudson M. 1998. The new validation of popular culture: sense and sentimentality in academia. In Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (2nd edn), StoreyJ (ed.). Prentice Hall: Hemel Hempstead; 495–503.
Scott LM. 1994. The bridge from text to mind: adapting reader-response theory to consumer research. Journal of Consumer Research 21: 461–480.
CrossRef,Web of Science® Times Cited: 84Sherry JF Jr, McGrath MA, Levy SJ. 1995. Monadic giving. In Contemporary Marketing and Consumer Behavior: An Anthropological Sourcebook, SherryJFJr (ed.). Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA.
Shildrick M. 1997. Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: Feminism, Postmodernism and (Bio)Ethics. Routledge: London.
Solomon MR. 1988. Mapping product constellations: a social categorization approach to symbolic consumption. Psychology and Marketing 5(3): 233–258.
Solomon MR. 2002. Consumer Behavior: Buying Having and Being (5th edn). Prentice Hall International, Inc.: New Jersey.
Stern BB. 2000. Advertisements as women's texts: a feminist overview. In Marketing and Feminism: Current Issues and Research, CatterallM, MaclaranP, StevensL (eds). Routledge: London; 57–74.
Web of Science® Times Cited: 24Stevens L. 2002. Your sofa awaits: getting carried away by experiential consumption. In Sixth Proceedings of the Gender, Marketing and Consumer Behaviour Conference, MaclaranP, Tissier DesbordesE (eds). ESCP-EAP Printing Service: Paris; 181–190.
Web of Science® Times Cited: 27Stevens L, Maclaran P, Brown S. 2003. Red time is me time: advertising, ambivalence, and women's magazines. Journal of Advertising 32(1): 35–46.
Web of Science® Times Cited: 4Tetreault MAS, Kleine RE. 1990. Ritual, ritualized behaviour, and habit: refinements and extensions of the consumption ritual construct. Advances in Consumer Research 17: 31–38.
Web of Science® Times Cited: 2Thompson CJ. 1996. Caring consumers: gendered consumption meanings and the juggling lifestyle. Journal of Consumer Research 22: 388–407.
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Winship J. 1987. Inside Women's Magazines. Pandora Press: London.
Woodruffe HR. 1997. Compensatory consumption: why women go shopping when they're fed up and other stories. Marketing Intelligence and Planning 15(7): 325–334.
CrossRefWoodruff-Burton HR. 1998. True life tales of postmodern consumers: Emily's story. Irish Marketing Review 11(2): 5–15.

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Advances in Consumer Research 23: 368–373. Web of Science{\textregistered} Times Cited: 7Chodorow NJ. 1978. The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender. University of California: Berkeley, CA. Web of Science{\textregistered}Creed B. 1998. From here to modernity: feminism and postmodernism. In Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (2nd edn), StoreyJ (ed.). Prentice Hall: Hemel Hempstead; 358–364. Damon-Moore H. 1994. Magazines for the Millions: Gender and Commerce in the {\textquoteleft}Ladies Home Journal{\textquoteright} and the {\textquoteleft}Saturday Evening Post{\textquoteright} 1880–1910. State University of New York Press: New York. Driver T. 1991. The Magic of Ritual. HarperCollins: New York. Ferguson M. 1983. Forever Feminine: Women's Magazines and the Cult of Femininity. Heinemann Educational Books Ltd: London. Finnegan R. 1997. Storying the self: personal narratives and identity. In Consumption and Everyday Life, MackayH (ed.). The Open University: Milton Keynes; 65–112. Fish S. 1980. Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA. Frith S. 1998. The good, the bad, and the indifferent: defending popular culture from the populists. In Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (2nd edn), StoreyJ (ed.). Prentice Hall: Hemel Hempstead; 570–586. Geraghty C. 1991. Women and Soap Opera: A Study of Prime Time Soap Operas. Polity Press: Cambridge. Geraghty C. 1997. Representation and popular culture. In Mass Media and Society, CurranJ, GurevitchM (eds). Arnold: London; 265–279. Geraghty C. 1998. Soap opera and utopia. StoreyJ (ed.). Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (2nd edn), Prentice Hall: Hemel Hempstead; 319–327. Gray A. 1992. The Gendering of a Leisure Technology. Routledge: London. CrossRefGrossberg L. 1988. Wandering audiences, nomadic critics. Cultural Studies 2(3): 377–391. CrossRefHermes J. 1995. Reading Women's Magazines: An Analysis of Everyday Media Use. Polity Press: Cambridge. Holbrook MB. 1995. Romanticism, subjective personal introspection, and morris the epicurean. Introspective Essays on the Study of Consumption, HolbrookMB (ed.). Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, California. Holbrook MB, Hirschman EC. 1982. The experiential aspects of consumption: consumer fantasies, feelings and fun. Journal of Consumer Research 9(September): 132–140. CrossRef,Web of Science{\textregistered} Times Cited: 508Hollows J. 2000. Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture. Manchester University Press: Manchester. Keynote Report. 2005a. Leisure and recreation market, October [http.//www.keynote reports. ac.uk] Keynote report. (2005b). Lifestyle magazines, November [http.//www.keynote reports.co.uk] King P. 2004. Private Dwelling. Routledge: London. Lash S. 2001. Individualization in a non-linear mode. Foreword to Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequence, BeckU, Beck-GernsheimE (eds). Sage: London; VII–XIII. Light A. 1984. Returning to Manderley'– romance fiction, female sexuality and class”. Feminist Review 16: 7–25. CrossRefLury C. 1996. Consumer Culture. Polity Press: Oxford. McCracken E. 1993. Decoding Women's Magazines from Mademoiselle to Ms. The Macmillan Press Ltd: Basingstoke. McCracken G. 1988. The Long Interview. Sage Publications, Inc.: Newbury Park. McRobbie A. 1994. Postmodernism and Popular Culture. Routledge: London. CrossRefMcRobbie A. 1997. The Es and the anti-Es: new questions for feminism and cultural studies. In Cultural Studies in Question, FergusonM, GoldingP (eds). Sage Publications: London. Mick DG, DeMoss M. (1990a). Self-gifts: phenomenological insights from four contexts. Journal of Consumer Research 17: 322–332. CrossRef,Web of Science{\textregistered} Times Cited: 86Mick DG, DeMoss M. (1990b). From me to me: a descriptive phenomenology of self-gifts. Advances in Consumer Research 17: 677–682. Web of Science{\textregistered} Times Cited: 16Modleski T. 1982. Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-produced fantasies for women. Methuen: London. Moore S. 1986. Permitted Pleasures, Women's Review 10: 9–10. Moores S. 1997. Broadcasting and its audiences. In Consumption and Everyday Life, MackayH (ed.). 1997. The Open University: Milton Keynes; 213–258. Morley D. 2000. Home Territories: Media, Mobility and Identity. Routledge. London. Morris M. 1998. Feminism, reading, postmodernism. In Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (2nd edn), StoreyJ (ed.). Prentice Hall: Hemel Hempstead; 365–370. Munro M, Madigan R. 1999. Negotiating space in the family home. In At Home: An Anthropology of Domestic Space, CieraadI (ed.). Syracuse University Press: Syracuse, NY; 107–117. Murdock G, Hartman P, Gray P. 1995. Contextualising home computing. In The Politics of Domestic Consumption, JacksonS, MooresS (eds). Hemel Hempstead: Harvester. Nava M. 1987. Consumption and its Contradictions, Cultural Studies 1: No. 2: 204–210. CrossRefNava M. 1991. Consumerism reconsidered: buying and power. Cultural Studies 5(2): 157–173. CrossRefNowell-Smith G. 1987. Popular culture. New Formations 2: 79–90. Oakley A. 1974. The Sociology of Housework. Martin Robertson: London. Radner H. 1995. Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure. Routledge: London. Radway JA. 1987. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Feminism. Verso: London. Rakow LF. 1998. Giving patriarchy its due. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (2nd edn), StoreyJ (ed.). Prentice Hall: Hemel Hempstead; 275–291. Rook D. 1985. The ritual dimension of consumer behavior. Journal of Consumer Research 12: 251–264. CrossRef,Web of Science{\textregistered} Times Cited: 100Schudson M. 1998. The new validation of popular culture: sense and sentimentality in academia. In Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (2nd edn), StoreyJ (ed.). Prentice Hall: Hemel Hempstead; 495–503. Scott LM. 1994. The bridge from text to mind: adapting reader-response theory to consumer research. Journal of Consumer Research 21: 461–480. CrossRef,Web of Science{\textregistered} Times Cited: 84Sherry JF Jr, McGrath MA, Levy SJ. 1995. Monadic giving. In Contemporary Marketing and Consumer Behavior: An Anthropological Sourcebook, SherryJFJr (ed.). Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA. Shildrick M. 1997. Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: Feminism, Postmodernism and (Bio)Ethics. Routledge: London. Solomon MR. 1988. Mapping product constellations: a social categorization approach to symbolic consumption. Psychology and Marketing 5(3): 233–258. Solomon MR. 2002. Consumer Behavior: Buying Having and Being (5th edn). Prentice Hall International, Inc.: New Jersey. Stern BB. 2000. Advertisements as women's texts: a feminist overview. In Marketing and Feminism: Current Issues and Research, CatterallM, MaclaranP, StevensL (eds). Routledge: London; 57–74. Web of Science{\textregistered} Times Cited: 24Stevens L. 2002. Your sofa awaits: getting carried away by experiential consumption. In Sixth Proceedings of the Gender, Marketing and Consumer Behaviour Conference, MaclaranP, Tissier DesbordesE (eds). ESCP-EAP Printing Service: Paris; 181–190. Web of Science{\textregistered} Times Cited: 27Stevens L, Maclaran P, Brown S. 2003. Red time is me time: advertising, ambivalence, and women's magazines. Journal of Advertising 32(1): 35–46. Web of Science{\textregistered} Times Cited: 4Tetreault MAS, Kleine RE. 1990. Ritual, ritualized behaviour, and habit: refinements and extensions of the consumption ritual construct. Advances in Consumer Research 17: 31–38. Web of Science{\textregistered} Times Cited: 2Thompson CJ. 1996. Caring consumers: gendered consumption meanings and the juggling lifestyle. Journal of Consumer Research 22: 388–407. CrossRef,Web of Science{\textregistered} Times Cited: 58Thompson CJ. 1997. Interpreting consumers: a hermeneutical framework for deriving marketing insights from the texts of consumers' consumption stories. Journal of Marketing Research 34: 4(Nov) 438–455. CrossRef,Web of Science{\textregistered} Times Cited: 91Thompson CJ, Locander WB, Pollio HR. 1989. Putting consumer experience back into consumer research: the philosophy and method of existential-phenomenology. Journal of Consumer Research 16(2): 133–146. CrossRef,Web of Science{\textregistered} Times Cited: 192Thompson CJ, Locander WB, Pollio HR. 1990. The lived experience of free choice: an existential-phenomenological description of everyday consumer experiences of contemporary married women. Journal of Consumer Research 17: 346–361. CrossRef,Web of Science{\textregistered} Times Cited: 77Thompson CJ, Pollio HR, Locander WB. 1994. The spoken and the unspoken: a hermeneutic approach to understanding the cultural viewpoints that underlie consumers' expressed meanings. Journal of Consumer Research 21: 432–452. CrossRef,Web of Science{\textregistered} Times Cited: 49Van Zoonen L. 1994. Feminist Media Studies. Sage Publications: London. Winship J. 1987. Inside Women's Magazines. Pandora Press: London. Woodruffe HR. 1997. Compensatory consumption: why women go shopping when they're fed up and other stories. Marketing Intelligence and Planning 15(7): 325–334. CrossRefWoodruff-Burton HR. 1998. True life tales of postmodern consumers: Emily's story. Irish Marketing Review 11(2): 5–15.",

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Web of Science® Times Cited: 7Chodorow NJ. 1978. The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender. University of California: Berkeley, CA. Web of Science®Creed B. 1998. From here to modernity: feminism and postmodernism. In Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (2nd edn), StoreyJ (ed.). Prentice Hall: Hemel Hempstead; 358–364. Damon-Moore H. 1994. Magazines for the Millions: Gender and Commerce in the ‘Ladies Home Journal’ and the ‘Saturday Evening Post’ 1880–1910. State University of New York Press: New York. Driver T. 1991. The Magic of Ritual. HarperCollins: New York. Ferguson M. 1983. Forever Feminine: Women's Magazines and the Cult of Femininity. Heinemann Educational Books Ltd: London. Finnegan R. 1997. Storying the self: personal narratives and identity. In Consumption and Everyday Life, MackayH (ed.). The Open University: Milton Keynes; 65–112. Fish S. 1980. Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA. Frith S. 1998. The good, the bad, and the indifferent: defending popular culture from the populists. In Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (2nd edn), StoreyJ (ed.). Prentice Hall: Hemel Hempstead; 570–586. Geraghty C. 1991. Women and Soap Opera: A Study of Prime Time Soap Operas. Polity Press: Cambridge. Geraghty C. 1997. Representation and popular culture. In Mass Media and Society, CurranJ, GurevitchM (eds). Arnold: London; 265–279. Geraghty C. 1998. Soap opera and utopia. StoreyJ (ed.). Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (2nd edn), Prentice Hall: Hemel Hempstead; 319–327. Gray A. 1992. The Gendering of a Leisure Technology. Routledge: London. CrossRefGrossberg L. 1988. Wandering audiences, nomadic critics. Cultural Studies 2(3): 377–391. CrossRefHermes J. 1995. Reading Women's Magazines: An Analysis of Everyday Media Use. Polity Press: Cambridge. Holbrook MB. 1995. Romanticism, subjective personal introspection, and morris the epicurean. Introspective Essays on the Study of Consumption, HolbrookMB (ed.). Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, California. Holbrook MB, Hirschman EC. 1982. The experiential aspects of consumption: consumer fantasies, feelings and fun. Journal of Consumer Research 9(September): 132–140. CrossRef,Web of Science® Times Cited: 508Hollows J. 2000. Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture. Manchester University Press: Manchester. Keynote Report. 2005a. Leisure and recreation market, October [http.//www.keynote reports. ac.uk] Keynote report. (2005b). Lifestyle magazines, November [http.//www.keynote reports.co.uk] King P. 2004. Private Dwelling. Routledge: London. Lash S. 2001. Individualization in a non-linear mode. Foreword to Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequence, BeckU, Beck-GernsheimE (eds). Sage: London; VII–XIII. Light A. 1984. Returning to Manderley'– romance fiction, female sexuality and class”. Feminist Review 16: 7–25. CrossRefLury C. 1996. Consumer Culture. Polity Press: Oxford. McCracken E. 1993. Decoding Women's Magazines from Mademoiselle to Ms. The Macmillan Press Ltd: Basingstoke. McCracken G. 1988. The Long Interview. Sage Publications, Inc.: Newbury Park. McRobbie A. 1994. Postmodernism and Popular Culture. Routledge: London. CrossRefMcRobbie A. 1997. The Es and the anti-Es: new questions for feminism and cultural studies. In Cultural Studies in Question, FergusonM, GoldingP (eds). Sage Publications: London. Mick DG, DeMoss M. (1990a). Self-gifts: phenomenological insights from four contexts. Journal of Consumer Research 17: 322–332. CrossRef,Web of Science® Times Cited: 86Mick DG, DeMoss M. (1990b). From me to me: a descriptive phenomenology of self-gifts. Advances in Consumer Research 17: 677–682. Web of Science® Times Cited: 16Modleski T. 1982. 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N2 - This is a study of women's magazine consumption in the home. It explores issues of time and space, and addresses the importance of magazine consumption in the context of busy lives and 'juggling' lifestyles. The study reveals family life to be a landscape within which women carve out what they perceive as valuable and rare time and space for themselves. The authors argue that in contemporary family life women's magazines play a key part in the quest for 'me time' and time away from others, in both a tangible and experiential sense.

AB - This is a study of women's magazine consumption in the home. It explores issues of time and space, and addresses the importance of magazine consumption in the context of busy lives and 'juggling' lifestyles. The study reveals family life to be a landscape within which women carve out what they perceive as valuable and rare time and space for themselves. The authors argue that in contemporary family life women's magazines play a key part in the quest for 'me time' and time away from others, in both a tangible and experiential sense.

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DO - 10.1002/cb.219

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VL - 6

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EP - 252

JO - Journal of Consumer Behaviour

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A space of One's Own: Women's Magazine Consumption Within Family Life

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