Introduction: I want my Mademoiselle : guilt, pleasure, and the politics of participation in the American women's magazine -- Taking liberties: "democracy" and dynamics in America's magazines -- Audience engagements : marketing early women's magazines and the construction of the popular woman reader -- Sons of Liberty and their silenced sisters : rising to self-representation in the women's magazines of the early republic -- Understanding equals : identity and community in Sarah Hale's (American) ladies' magazine -- Media makeovers : converting the popular to politics in America's first feminist magazines -- Epilogue: Where are they now? Women's voices and the mass market magazine.
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