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Kate Long
volewriter
Well, it's all been a bit serious on here, so for the Sunday #VintageMagTweets thread I thought I'd look at some letters to teenage magazines that are more light-hearted. They
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Kate Long
volewriter
Well, I beg your pudding, I got confused over the days and didn't realise yesterday was Sunday. So here I am to do the #VintageMagTweets now.This batch is all about
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Kate Long
volewriter
#VintageMagTweets come today from this fascinating New jersey analysis of reading books for children. The original experiment took place in 1972, but there's an update in this 1975 edition.The fact
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Kate Long
volewriter
Oh, it's been a mad week, hasn't it? So I am going to do #VintageMagTweets tomorrow, and tonight I'm having a little awards ceremony. We'll call them the Vole Awards
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Kate Long
volewriter
OK, #VintageMagTweets time and, after a thread about the failings of some 70s and 80s agony aunts to support youngsters, I wanted to look more positively at why problem pages
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Kate Long
volewriter
Tonight's #VintageMagTweets looks at Shocking Pink magazine, a home-made mag put together by a group of very young feminists in the 80s as a direct response to Jackie and similar
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Kate Long
volewriter
Tonight's #VintageMagTweets come from this excellent 1976 book, 'Just Like a Girl'. If you're a fan of Simone de Beauvoir's quotation, "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman",
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Kate Long
volewriter
I don't know if you can make out the type here, but they're saying to this woman that she is fully qualified for a position at a college and would
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Kate Long
volewriter
My #VintageMagTweets tonight will be about the media's handling of Peter Sutcliffe, the so-called Yorkshire Ripper. There's an excellent (but obviously upsetting) documentary by Liza Williams that's just been aired
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Kate Long
volewriter
#VintageMagTweets tonight come from this Punch book of Women's Rights. The publishing date is 1967. It's a straightforward look at the history of female rights up to and including suffrage.
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Kate Long
volewriter
I said I'd start a thread called #ThankABoomer where I looked at aspects of life that have got better specifically because women in that cohort fought really hard against sexism.
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