{"id":1590,"date":"2013-04-04T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:11:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:11:24","slug":"ever-reliable-womens-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"Ever-Reliable Women&#8217;s Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The commemorative edition for 80 years of The Australian Women&#8217;s Weekly contains many photos and snippets\u00a0of the royals, not\u00a0only the British ones.\u00a0 In\u00a0this pictorial record of women&#8217;s social history in 20th century Australia,\u00a0hardly a\u00a0page goes by without a reference to\u00a0or pictures of royals including\u00a0several full-length glamour shots of QEII.\u00a0 The section on the 1940s is\u00a0titled &#8220;Fighting for King and country: patriotism and practicality&#8221; even though we were 40 years into the Federation by then and this was the catch cry\u00a0for our participation in WWI as part of the British Empire!\u00a0 By the 2000s,\u00a0the Weekly\u00a0proclaims &#8220;our own royal&#8221;, that is\u00a0Princess\u00a0Mary of Denmark &#8220;although the British royal family continues to be of fascination&#8221;.\u00a0 When it comes to royals, the\u00a0magazine\u00a0has\u00a0supplied a wholesome diet of regal allure and fashion over the years but not nearly enough critical analysis of what monarchy is really about and why it isn&#8217;t right for our\u00a0population of equals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The commemorative edition for 80 years of The Australian Women&#8217;s Weekly contains many photos and snippets\u00a0of the royals, not\u00a0only the British ones.\u00a0 In\u00a0this pictorial record of women&#8217;s social history in 20th century Australia,\u00a0hardly a\u00a0page goes by without a reference to\u00a0or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}