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How the Australian Women's Weekly spoke to '50s housewives about the Cold War

Under editor Esmé Fenston, by the end of the 1950s, the Australian Women's Weekly was selling over 805,000 copies a week. More than half of all Australian women read the magazine. It focused on promoting a vision of the "everyday" Australian woman. Of course she did not represent all women " she was white, middle […]

SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 03:52PM on December 8, 2020

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