This research examines the underlying ethos of health and wellbeing journalism, with specific ref... more This research examines the underlying ethos of health and wellbeing journalism, with specific reference to Women’s Health magazine. In particular, this dissertation questions the tacit assumptions that women are somehow juvenile. Inquiries such as this have not been sufficiently carried out on modern women’s magazines. Based on content and discourse analysis, it is suggested that Women’s Health, despite the appearance of adult and active emancipation, endorses the therapeutic culture in which women are taken to be in need of support and guidance. This research draws on the radical traditions stretching from Wollstonecraft (1759) to Greer (1971).
This research examines the underlying ethos of health and wellbeing journalism, with specific ref... more This research examines the underlying ethos of health and wellbeing journalism, with specific reference to Women’s Health magazine. In particular, this dissertation questions the tacit assumptions that women are somehow juvenile. Inquiries such as this have not been sufficiently carried out on modern women’s magazines. Based on content and discourse analysis, it is suggested that Women’s Health, despite the appearance of adult and active emancipation, endorses the therapeutic culture in which women are taken to be in need of support and guidance. This research draws on the radical traditions stretching from Wollstonecraft (1759) to Greer (1971).
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