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With the launch of The Gentlewoman, the magazine's Scottish editor-in-chief, Penny Martin, is finally giving a glossy platform to smart, interesting and stylish women who really have something to say, writes Alice Wyllie
HANDBAGS and heels and hair and heterosexual relationships. Scan the rows of shiny women's magazines on the shelves of any newsagent and you'd be forgiven for believing that women's interests don't extend beyond such narrow, specific subject matter.See the full content of this document
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The Gentle Touch
Interviewees are more likely to be asked about their boyfriends than their jobs, images of women tend to be either retouched to unrealistic proportions or deliberately candid in order to highlight physical flaws, and fashion is about spending money, not pursuing style.
A new biannual magazine hopes to offer readers an alte...See the full content of this document
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