Hidden Non-Progressiveness: US Women’s Magazine Good Housekeeping During Wartime and Emancipation of Mass Media Content

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  • Ester Maurizi

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https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/18085

Abstract

This article aims to investigate whether the US women’s magazine Good Housekeeping, a massi- vely popular publication, linguistically reflected a perceived emancipation of the WWII Ame- rican woman’s identity and role at home and in the workplace. Specifically, a corpus of articles appeared on the magazine between 1920 and 1949 will be analysed using Corpus Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis to put to the test the theory that the 1940s texts are more emanci- pated or modern than those from the previous two decades. How do their Wartime linguistic strategies compare with those from the time of peace between the Wars? And how do they compare with the real, daily life in Wartime America, as reconstructed by historians?

Author Biography

Ester Maurizi

Ester Maurizi is a PhD Candidate in Studies in English Studies, Literatures, Cultures, Lan- guage, and Translation, Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies of Sapienza – University of Rome. Her main research areas include Linguistics and Transla- tion. She is a member of AIA (Italian Association for English Studies) and published Aspects of Linguistic Taboo in the Indo-European (in Italian, Società Editrice Dante Alighieri, 2018) and a review on “Pullen, A., Helin, J., & Harding, N. (Eds.) Writing Differently, Dialogues in Critical Management Studies, Vol. 4. Bingley, UK: Emerald (2020), pp. 240.” (Discourses on Culture, 2022). She authored the dissertation Critical Discourse Analysis and Identity Construction in the U.S. Magazine Good Housekeeping From the 1920s to the 1940s in a joint PhD program with the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.

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2022-06-28 — Updated on 2022-06-28

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Maurizi, E. (2022). Hidden Non-Progressiveness: US Women’s Magazine Good Housekeeping During Wartime and Emancipation of Mass Media Content. Status Quaestionis, (22). https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/18085

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No. 22 (2022): Narrative Dimensions and European Theatre, from the Early Twentieth Century to the Present

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