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- Some Popular Women's Magazines:
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- Following is a selection of popular women's magazines,
- including reviews of each magazine and links to more
information about them.
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- Seventeen
- Editorial Reviews:
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- From Amazon.com
The perky authority on all things girl since 1944, Seventzine
is not mere eye candy. Mixed among the cutting-edge styles (and
multitudinous ads) you'll find short but plentiful articles.
Topics range in import: fluff stuff like "What Will You
Wear Back to School?" and "The Ultimate Ponytail Guide"
is balanced by heavier fodder, such as "No One Believes
I Was Raped" and pieces on having a gay sibling and the
dangers of binge drinking. Skewed largely toward a Caucasian
teen audience, the magazine's coverage of beauty and relationship
conundrums does offer nods to young women of color. The tone
is resolutely positive, and amid all the talk of must-have hairdos
and hottie alerts, the message is girl power in its most nonthreatening
guise. --Brangien Davis
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- From the Publisher
This is a young woman's premier fashion and beauty magazine.
It is tailored for women in their late teens and early twenties
and includes information on fitness, food, cars, college, careers,
talent, entertainment, fiction and crucial personal and global
issues.
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- Marie Claire Magazine
- Editorial Reviews:
- From Amazon.com
Sex, romance, shoes, lingerie, diet, guns, war--Marie Claire
is a grab bag of hot issues for the modern woman. Combining a
powerful feature on gun control laws with an article on the best
lingerie to wear with low-slung jeans, Marie Claire proves that
beauty magazines need not be all fluff and no substance. It provides
one-stop shopping for the Cosmo woman craving a little more from
her fashion magazine--the kind of woman who can talk politics
while painting her nails and solving her relationship woes, all
while on the treadmill. Yet for all its attempts to become a
jill of all trades, Marie Claire remains a powerhouse in one
field: beauty. From the hottest lip or polish color to the latest
haircut, from the best tools of the trade to the must-have scent
of the year, Marie Claire remains unsurpassed as the best source
for beauty advice, and those pages alone are worth the cover
price. --Daphne Durham
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- From the Publisher
MARIE CLAIRE is a combination of features, fashion and beauty
for the independent woman. Its editorial reflects all areas of
the reader's life, providing the time-pressed woman with a mix
of information.
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- Cosmopolitan
- Editorial Reviews:
- From Amazon.com
Cosmopolitan (or as it's affectionately known, Cosmo) has sex
on the brain. Hugh Hefner is a monk compared to the Cosmo Girl
in the fun fantasy world conjured by the magazine. The naughty
cover headlines ("151,497 of You Begged to See THIS Guy
Butt Naked") are legendary, veritable haikus of horniness
reportedly perfected by David Brown, the movie-producer husband
of Cosmo's most famous editor, Helen Gurley Brown. Inside, lots
of articles will warn you that "names have been changed"--and
you won't complain, considering that anonymity frees people to
reveal what goes on behind closed doors in the lives of celebrities
and average women. If you're the slightest bit curious to find
out, say, what "shocking act" 41 percent of American
women have tried, or which attribute Leo DiCaprio flashed in
an interview, or what sort of "sexified" look might
"melt his ice-cream cone," perk up your life with Cosmopolitan.
--Bob Brandeis
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- From the Publisher
COSMOPOLITAN focuses on personal growth, relationships and careers,
with expanded reporting on fashion and beauty, health and fitness.
Covered as well are celebrities and pop culture... and just about
everything else young women want to know about.
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- Redbook
- Editorial Reviews:
From Amazon.com
If you find the sex-and-the-single-girl style of Cosmo less relevant
to your current how-do-I-juggle-kids-husband-job-sanity stage
of life, then congratulations, you've graduated to Redbook. Don't
worry, this isn't your mother's magazine; Redbook is loaded with
steamy Cosmo-like articles (in other words, sex, sex, sex), only
now they're covered under "Love and Marriage" and deal
with helping you keep things together at home (including a monthly
Q&A with John Gray called "Passionate Monogamy").
From here, Redbook branches out, with sections on kids and parenting,
food, health and fitness, beauty, fashion, celebrity profiles,
short fiction, book excerpts, and making time for yourself. --Jenny
Brown
- From the Publisher
The editorial focus of this magazine is on young, working mothers.
It seeks to help women who juggle a husband, family, home and
job. Its feature articles deal with fashion, beauty and health,
food and nutrition, parenting and relationships. Additionally,
each issue offers fictional short stories and excerpts from longer
fictional works. Published Monthly.
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- Fitness
- Editorial Reviews:
From Amazon.com
With so many sources of health information out there, it's great
to find a single magazine devoted to collating, simplifying,
and explaining it all. Fitness is a woman-oriented magazine that
presents a practical and realistic guide to maintaining a lifestyle
that's healthy for the body, mind, and spirit, complete with
everything from exercise and dieting tips to advice on beating
stress and building confidence in bed. Each issue contains helpful
information such as pointers on beautifying oneself naturally,
reviews of health and beauty products, and strategies and recipes
for eating smart, getting the proper workout, and keeping your
life in balance, both physically and emotionally. --Ben Reese
- From the Publisher
Fitness is a lifestyle magazine for active, young women. It presents
a realistic, balanced approach to good health covering a wide
range of topics that promote total fitness of body, mind and
spirit.
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- Glamour
- Editorial Reviews:
- From Amazon.com
Glamour is the twentysomething woman's "Miss Manners"
and charm-school bible, bursting at the seams with intimations,
propositions, and warnings: how to dress for a dinner party,
how to turn him on in five minutes, how to avoid the dreaded
"fashion don't." Glamour's mission is to help the young
woman trapped between Seventeen and Vogue find her way to becoming
a happier, healthier, sexier gal. Unabashedly girly, including
all the things we've come to expect from beauty and fashion mags--celebrity
style gossip, hot trends in hair and makeup, quizzes, and quick
fixes for everything from broken nails to fractured friendships--Glamour
is girl talk, pure and simple. --Daphne Durham
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- From the Publisher
This magazine is edited for the contemporary American woman.
It seeks to inform women about trends, recommend women on how
to adapt trends into their lifestyles and motivate women into
action. Its features include articles on fashion, beauty, health,
personal relationships, career, travel, food and entertainment.
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- Vogue
- Editorial Reviews:
From Amazon.com
Vogue lives by the maxim that you can't be too rich or too thin--or
have too many ad pages. But the glossy spreads of broomstick-thin
supermodels draped in Prada and Chanel, and the endless pages
of ads for the finest clothes, accessories, and makeup the beauty
industry has to offer, help make it the leading magazine of women's
style. Fashion is the main event, but every issue attends society
parties, goes inside the home of a celebrity designer, and travels
to an exotic resort or vacation spot. Like Playboy, Vogue is
a magazine you can claim to read because the articles are good.
Famously, the September fall fashion issue can easily top 700
pages. --Katherine Koberg
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- From the Publisher
A magazine that defines fashion-then pushes it to the limits.
Readers know Vogue as the first and final word on fashion, beauty
and contemporary culture. Vogue is the ultimate image-maker.
Before it's in style, it's in Vogue.
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- Ladies' Home Journal
- Editorial Reviews:
From Amazon.com
Ladies' Home Journal both empowers women and applauds their growing
power by focusing on issues that are important to them. As the
oldest women's service magazine in the country, it addresses
a variety of topics for active women who are evolving in new
directions. Highly informational features and articles highlight
food and nutrition, health and medicine, beauty and fashion,
home decorating and design, parenting and self-help, personalities,
and current events. Features from past issues include interviews
with celebs and women in the news, life changes for a healthy
heart, and warming up with comfort food. From how to handle stress
and make new friends to the latest in home design and lingerie,
LHJ caters to both a woman's head and her heart. --Rhonda Langdon
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- From the Publisher
This magazine is designed for active, empowered women who are
evolving in new directions. It addresses informational needs
with highly focused features and articles on a variety of topics
including beauty and fashion, food and nutrition, health and
medicine, home decorating and design, parenting and self-help,
personalities and current events.
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