Roughing it in the Suburbs: Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties

Signed and inscribed (to CFRB's Christina Cherneskey) by author Valerie Korinek on the title page. Book in excellent condition. 1st Edition

"In this exhilarating study of Canada's foremost women's publication in the 50s and 60s, Valerie Korinek shows that while the magazine was certainly filled with advertisements that promoted domestic perfection through the endless expansion of consumer spending, a number of its sections - including fiction, features, letters, and the editor's column - began to contain material that subversively complicated the simple consumer recipes for affluent domesticity. Articles on abortion, spousal abuse, and poverty proliferated alongside explicitly feminist editorials..."