SOURCE: “Gender Specialization and the Feminine Curriculum: The Periodical for Women,” in Women and Print Culture: The Construction of Femininity in the Early Periodical, Routledge, 1989, pp. 146-74, 186-90, 220-23, 226.
In the excerpt that follows, Shevelow surveys periodicals targeted at women readers, tracing their evolution in the course of the eighteenth century and examining the means by which they defined themselves and their audiences.
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