Gender and the Victorian Periodical

Gender and the Victorian Periodical examines the important part played by the Victorian periodical in defining and refining the ideas of gender and gender roles during the second half of the nineteenth century. It locates the periodical press in nineteenth-century culture, and consider issues of gender in the development of the press as a powerful political and social medium. The study examines broad questions as they are explored in a range of different kinds of periodicals, from journalism to comic magazines.