Laurel Forster

Laurel Forster is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at University of Portsmouth. Her research interests are in women's cultural history, women's magazines and women's modernist writing. She is author of Magazine Movements: Women's Culture, Feminisms and Media Form (Bloomsbury 2015) and numerous other articles on women's magazines and media cultures. She has co-edited a number of books including: Historicising the Women's Liberation Movement in the Western World: 1960-1999 (Routledge 2018);...See more

Laurel Forster is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at University of Portsmouth. Her research interests are in women's cultural history, women's magazines and women's modernist writing. She is author of Magazine Movements: Women's Culture, Feminisms and Media Form (Bloomsbury 2015) and numerous other articles on women's magazines and media cultures. She has co-edited a number of books including: Historicising the Women's Liberation Movement in the Western World: 1960-1999 (Routledge 2018); British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010), The Recipe Reader: Narratives, Contexts, Traditions (Ashgate 3003). See less