‘Women’s friend’ – first feministic socio-literary magazine published by a woman (1882-1884)

For citation: Melikova I., Gerasimova A. ‘Women’s friend’ – first feministic socio-literary magazine published by a woman (1882-1884) // Mediascope. 2024. 1. Available at: http://www.mediascope.ru/2851

© Irina A. Melikova,

Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor, Associate Professor at the Chair of History of Russian Literature and Journalism, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), isurnina1983@mail.ru

© Anna V. Gerasimova,

PhD student at the Chair of Russian Literature and Journalism, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), ganechka@inbox.ru

Abstract

The article examines the magazine of M. Boguslavskaya ‘Women’s friend’ published in 1882-1884 in Moscow. The authors analyze the reasons for publishing such an outlet, its programme, range of authors, structure and significance, taking into account the historical context. The controversy with a number of periodicals is shown.

Key words: ‘Women’s friend’, Boguslavskaya, women’s magazine, structure, subscribers, controversy, closing the magazine

Notes

Drug zhenshchin. 1882. No 1. (In Russian)

Drug zhenshchin. 1882. No 2. (In Russian)

Drug zhenshchin. 1882. No 6. (In Russian)

Drug zhenshchin. 1883. No 1. (In Russian)

Drug zhenshchin. 1884. No 1. (In Russian)

K-".I. (1883) “Spetsial'nyy Zhenskiy Zhurnal” [‘Special Women’s Magazine]. Zhenskoe obrazovanie, pedagogicheskiy listok dlya roditeley, nastavnits i nastavnikov, izdavaemyy pri S.-Peterburgskikh zhenskikh gimnaziyakh 1. (In Russian)

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