| Review | Journal of Social History, 40.3

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Gender, Modernity, and the Popular Press in Inter-War Britain. By Adrian Bingham (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 271pp.).
This neatly defined and beautifully written study is part of a recent resurgence in media history that allies itself closely with social history. Through a focus on its growth and significance, Bingham is keen to place Britain's inter-war popular press in the spotlight as an historical source. While the traditionally political press does not lend itself to the writing of social history, the inter-war popular daily newspapers became read by the majority of the population, a part of everyday life, and hence a source for social history.	1
The book's main objective is to read popular newspapers for insights about changing inter-war masculine and feminine identities. The notion of newspapers as strictly patriarchal is disputed. Instead, arguing that both gender identities were challenged by the Great War, Bingham moves to consider the relationship between the two, a process that he considers was reflected and formed through the papers of the era. There was a convergence of masculinity and femininity, and an overlapping of the 'public' and 'private' spheres, as evidenced by topics such as relationship advice, women in paid work, and domesticated masculinity.	. . .

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