Magazines / Analysis of contents page: Woman's Realm

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Codes and Conventions:

• Language e.g. some use of alliteration to appeal to audience, mostly factual language, some more colloquial ‘pick-me-ups’
• Features on family, fashion, beauty, health, food, home, and fiction – typical features of women’s weekly magazines

Target Audience:

• Assumed to be heterosexual females, married with children, possibly older females
• Assumed interests – family, home, cooking, fashion, health
• Assumed to have limited disposable income – bargain holidays, low cost coats

Reflecting social/ cultural/ historical context:

• ‘Man about the house’ – making a table – male gives instructions, but included in a female magazine
• Sunday cook – traditional assumption that Sunday is a family day and the wife will cook the food
• Knitting, sewing, making soft furnishings – culture of making items rather than buying