Early Women’s Press (Three Female Magazines): A Challenge for the 19th Century East and Greece
In: Women Telling Nations
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Sirmula Alexandridou
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This chapter interrogates the notion that the publication of magazines for women and by women represented a male public discourse during the second half of the 19th century. The publication of three female literary magazines did not only mark indelibly the broader area of Hellenism, but also contributed to the emergence of a female consciousness and identity. The anxiety to conserve Greekness and secure national identity, a common characteristic of all three magazines, as well as the use of purist Greek as the only language that could ensure continuity with the past and the ancient Greek language, appears to have suffocated the dynamic emergence of the female press.