Het Rijk der Vrouw

Het Rijk der Vrouw (Dutch: Woman's Realm) was a Belgian women's magazine published between 1925 and 1990.

Het Rijk der Vrouw
Categories
Founded1925
Final issue1990
CountryBelgium
LanguageDutch

History and profile

The magazine was established in 1924,[1] and its first issue appeared in 1925.[2][3] Its original title was Het Modeblad.[3] It was published by n.v. Het Rijk der Vrouw which was part of a company owned by Jan Meuwissen.[3] The focus of the magazine was on fashion for women and girls.[3] The magazine was renamed as Het Rijk der Vrouw in 1931 after it was redesigned.[3]

Femmes d'Aujourd'hui was its sister publication, and both magazines were acquired by the publishing company J. Hoste in 1975.[3] Later, Het Rijk der Vrouw became part of Almaspar.[4] Mediaxis bought the magazine in 1990.[3]

It was a conservative magazine emphasizing family values and connoisseurship.[2][5] Its target audience was young women as well as experienced housewives.[6] The magazine covered articles on fashion, home decoration and marriage.[6] It also featured photonovels from the issue 617 dated 27 February 1957.[3]

In 1990 Het Rijk der Vrouw went bankrupt and then, merged with Libelle, another Belgian women's magazine.[7][8]

See also

References
  1. "Archive. Het rijk der vrouw". Libelle (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 15 May 2013.
  2. Martina Temmerman; Maaike Van de Voorde (2015). "Absent husbands and whispering voices: a critical analysis of the representation of men in two popular Flemish women's magazines". Journal of Gender Studies. 24 (1): 3–17. doi:10.1080/09589236.2013.790799. S2CID 144333778.
  3. Clarissa Colangelo (2023). The Belgian Photonovel, 1954-1985: An Introduction. Leuven: Leuven University Press. pp. 70–72, 79. ISBN 978-94-6166-511-9.
  4. Pierre Musso; Philippe Souêtre; Lionel Levasseur (1995). The Printed Press and Television in the Regions of Europe. The Netherlands: Council of Europe. p. 127. ISBN 978-92-871-2807-2.
  5. Mieke Ceulemans; Guido Fauconnier (2015). "Mass Media: The Image, Role, and Social Conditions of Women". International Women Online Journal Of Distance Education. 4 (2).
  6. Maaike Van de Voorde; Martina Temmerman (2014). "Feminism and Women's Magazines". In Rosario Lacalle Zalduendo (ed.). II International Conference Gender and Communication. Editorial Dykinson, S.L. p. 37. ISBN 978-84-9085-029-9.
  7. Maaike Van de Voorde (December 2014). "'Super creams for young eyes': Women's magazines' hybrid approach to journalism". Hybridity and the News Hybrid Forms of Journalism in the 21st Century: 222–242.
  8. Katia Segers; Joke Bauwens; Nele Van Den Cruyce (2009). "Reflections of a Child. Depicting Healthy Childhood in the 1940s and 1960s". Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire. 87 (3–4): 759–774. doi:10.3406/rbph.2009.7703.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.