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American women's magazines

Some important mass-market American women's magazines

Many are found online through Women's Magazine Archive.  These include Better Homes and Gardens, Cosmopolitan, Essence, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Parents, Redbook, Seventeen, and Woman's Day, among other.

Individual titles with backfiles include:

Comprehensive archive of Women’s Wear Daily, from the first issue in 1910 to material from within the last 12 months, reproduced in high-resolution images.

Herstory 
Collection of women's newsletters and periodicals from the Women's History Library at Berkeley. Covers the early 1970's, primarily U.S. but also some international and some material as early as 1945. 

Women’s periodicals [microform]: 18th century to the Great Depression
Collection of women's magazines. Primarily U.S. and British material, but some international coverage. The material is grouped by topic: economics, fashion, literature and the arts, religion, and social and political issues.

Reveal Digital Independent Voices
Collection of magazines, journals, and newspapers of the alternative press from the 1960s, including feminists, anti-war groups, African-Americans, Native-Americans and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.

British & European women's magazines

Women advising women 
The first and third parts of this series consist of selected women's periodicals from the 18th and early 19th centuries in Britain. The second part includes advice books and other literature for women. 

Popular women’s magazines at the British Library, London [microform]
Reproduces a group of widely-read women's magazines: Woman, 1890-1912 (reels 1-21); Englishwoman’s review and drawing room journal, 1857-1859, and Myra’s journal of dress and fashion, 1875-1912 (reels 22-42); The Ladies’ pocket magazine, 1826-1839, The Ladies’ treasury, 1858-1869; and La Belle assemblée, 1806-1832 (reels 62-70).

Women’s journals of the nineteenth century 
Consists of two important feminist periodicals of the late 19th century: The Women’s penny paper and Woman’s herald, 1888-1893. 

Radical and reforming periodicals for and by women [microform]
Selected women's periodicals from the British Library. Covers 1870-1928. Reflects a range of political points of view, and also includes some women's professional magazines.

Women’s journals, 1919-1968 [microform]: from franchise to feminism
Consists of a single British illustrated woman's magazine: Eve, 1919-1929

European women’s periodicals 
Selected women's magazines from the International Institute of Social History and other archives. Unit 2 consists of periodicals from France. Unit 3 consists of periodicals from Germany. Covers 1840-1940.