How the Australian Women's Weekly spoke to '50s housewives about the Cold War
- Written by Hannah Viney, PhD Candidate, School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies, Monash University
TroveUnder editor Esmé Fenston, by the end of the 1950s, the Australian Women’s Weekly was selling over 805,000 copies a week. More than half of all Australian women read the magazine.
It focused on promoting a vision of the “everyday” Australian woman. Of course she did not represent all women — she was white, middle...





