Why do the pages of shelter magazines for women seem so pristine? The answer is not what you think, according to one scholar.

Back in the 1920s and ‘30s, the magazine Women’s Home Companion tried explicitly appealing to its readers to take the ads seriously.

Marriage and relationship advice has changed as the institutions evolve.

The Splashy language of fashion magazines prompted one linguist to look closer at the over-the-top dialect in Vogue and Ladies’ Home Journal of the 30s

Fashion magazines, which first emerged in the 19th century, bridged notions of femininity with an increasingly consumerist society.