List of women's magazines
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This is a list of women's magazines, magazine
s that have been published primarily for a readership of women
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Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
s that have been published primarily for a readership of women
Woman
A woman , pl: women is a female human. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent...
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Currently published
- AllureAllure (magazine)Allure is the leading U.S. women’s beauty magazine, published monthly by Condé Nast in New York City. It was founded in 1991 by editor in chief Linda Wells, who has been at the helm of the magazine ever since. From its inception, the magazine has been widely recognized for its intelligent,...
- Australian Women's WeeklyAustralian Women's WeeklyThe Australian Women's Weekly is an Australian monthly women's magazine published by ACP Magazines, a division of PBL Media based in Sydney. Audited circulation in 2009 exceeded 500,000 copies monthly, making it the largest magazine in Australia.-History:...
- BelleBelle (magazine)Belle is an Australian design magazine, published bi-monthly, covering interior design and architecture as well as a raft of other home improvement content. It is Australia's leading design magazine and has been in circulation for over thirty years. It is produced by Australian Consolidated Press....
- BisBis (magazine)Bis is a magazine directed at teenaged schoolgirls, published in Japan by Kobunsha. JJ Bis had changed its title to Bis effective from the January 2006 issue. JJ Bis, former title of Bis, has been established in 2001 as an extra issue of monthly JJ, and JJ Bis is currently supported among Japanese...
(Japan) - StylishandTrendyStylishandTrendyStylishandTrendy.com aka is an online Women's Magazine which is published primarily for a readership of women centric topics i.e. women's health, beauty tips, fashion tips, dieting tips, relationship advice, parenting, sex advice, family, healthy recipes, celebrity gossip, pregnancy advice, weight...
- Bitch
- Burda Fashion
- BustBust (magazine)Bust is a bi-monthly United States-based women's lifestyle magazine. It was founded in 1993 by Debbie Stoller, Laurie Henzel, and Marcelle Karp.-Content:...
- CahootsCahoots (magazine)Cahoots is an independent women's magazine, published in Canada. It was founded in 2005 by Carla Atherton and Michele Rowe, who remain as the magazine's managing editor and editor, respectively.-Origins:...
- Canadian Living
- ChatelaineChatelaine (magazine)Chatelaine is an English-language Canadian magazine of women's lifestyles. Both Chatelaine and its French-language version, Châtelaine, are published monthly by Rogers Media, Inc., a division of Rogers Communications, Inc...
- CosmopolitanCosmopolitan (magazine)Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...
- Clean Eating
- Cleo (magazine)Cleo (magazine)CLEO is an Australian, New Zealand, South African, Malaysian, Singaporean, Thailand and Indonesian women's magazine.Aimed at an older audience than the teenage-focused Dolly, the magazine is known for its CLEO Bachelor of the Year award....
- Courageous Woman (magazine)
- CroissantCroissant (magazine)is a Japanese magazine for middle-aged women, published by Magazine House . Many issues of the magazine concentrate on particular topics, but the magazine as a whole tends to dwell on interiors, cooking, health, and looking young....
(Japan) - CurveCurve (magazine)Curve is a lesbian magazine in the United States. It covers news, politics, social issues, and includes celebrity interviews and stories on entertainment, pop culture, style, travel, and a website that hosts an internet forum focusing on lesbian issues, active since 2000.The magazine was first...
- ElleElle (magazine)Elle is a worldwide magazine of French origin that focuses on women's fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. Elle is also the world's largest fashion magazine. It was founded by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon in 1945. The title, in French, means "she".-History:Elle was founded in...
- EssenceEssence (magazine)Essence is a monthly magazine for African-American women between the ages of 18 and 49. The magazine covers fashion, lifestyle and beauty with an intimate girlfriend-to-girlfriend tone.-History:...
- EbonyEbony (magazine)Ebony, a monthly magazine for the African-American market, was founded by John H. Johnson and has published continuously since the autumn of 1945...
- Ettelaat-e BanuvanEttelaat-e BanuvanEttelā'āt-e Bānuvān or Banovan was the first women's magazine published in Tehran. The magazine was published by Ettelaat during Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's rule....
(magazine), IranIranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia... - Ewomen Indian
- Family CircleFamily CircleFamily Circle is an American women's magazine published 15 times a year by Meredith Corporation. It began publication in 1932 as a magazine distributed at supermarkets such as Piggly Wiggly and Safeway. Cowles Magazines and Broadcasting bought the magazine in 1962. The New York Times Company bought...
- Femina (Indonesia)Femina (Indonesia)Femina is an award winning women's magazine owned by Femina Group and the first women’s publication in Indonesia. It was first published in September 1972....
- Femina (India)Femina (India)Femina is a magazine, published fortnightly in India. It is owned by Worldwide Media, a 50:50 joint venture between BBC Worldwide and The Times Group. It is primarily a women's magazine and features articles on relationships, beauty and fashion,travels,women fight back, cuisine, and health and...
- FilamentFilament MagazineFilament is a quarterly magazine aimed at women, showcasing erotic photographs of men. Filament professes, through its tagline, to be "The thinking woman's crumpet". Unlike other magazines for women that have featured solely muscular men, Filament features a wide variety of men...
(UK) - First for WomenFirst for WomenFirst for Women is a woman's magazine published by Bauer Media Group in the USA. It was started in 1989, and has a circulation of 1.3 million....
- FlareFlare (magazine)Flare is a Canadian fashion magazine. It is owned by Rogers Communications.Flare magazine was created in 1979, as a rebranding of Miss Chatelaine magazine. Flare promotes itself as "Canada's Fashion magazine"...
- GlamourGlamour (magazine)Glamour is a women's magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. Founded in 1939 in the United States, it was originally called Glamour of Hollywood....
- Good HousekeepingGood HousekeepingGood Housekeeping is a women's magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation, featuring articles about women's interests, product testing by The Good Housekeeping Institute, recipes, diet, health as well as literary articles. It is well known for the "Good Housekeeping Seal," popularly known as the...
- GraziaGraziaGrazia is an Italian weekly women's fashion and celebrity gossip magazine, with international editions printed in France, Serbia, Australia, United Kingdom, Greece, Portugal, Japan, the Netherlands, India, Bulgaria and Germany....
- Gynaika
- Hänt ExtraHänt ExtraHänt Extra is a Swedish celebrity magazine published by Aller Media. It was the second best selling magazine in the country in 2004....
(Sweden) - Hello Magazine (UK)
- HennesHennes (magazine)Hennes is a magazine published in Sweden. It was the eleventh best selling magazine in the country in 2004....
(Sweden) - Homemakers MagazineHomemakers MagazineHomemakers is a Canadian magazine that covers women's lifestyles, published nine times a year. It offers recipes and articles on food, health, style, home and living....
- Horn Ok Please lifestyle Magazine
- Indianapolis Woman MagazineIndianapolis Woman MagazineIndianapolis Woman Magazine is a monthly magazine published in Indianapolis which covers issues of interest to women.- External links :*...
- In StyleIn StyleInStyle is a monthly women’s fashion magazine published in the United States by Time Inc. Along with advertising, the magazine offers articles about beauty, fashion, home, entertaining, charitable endeavors and celebrity lifestyles. Launched in 1993 , InStyle currently has a circulation of 1.7...
- In Touch WeeklyIn Touch WeeklyIn Touch Weekly is an American celebrity gossip magazine. The magazine is focused on celebrity news, fashion, beauty, relationships and lifestyle, and is geared towards a younger readership, billing itself as "fast and fun", along with making claims about their lower cover price on their front...
- JJJJ (magazine)JJ is a Japanese fashion and lifestyle magazine published by Kobunsha. It was established in 1975 as an extra issue of Weekly Josei Jishin, and was the first women's magazine for college students in Japan. Most readers of JJ are females between the ages of 17 and 26, and range from college students...
- Ladies' Home JournalLadies' Home JournalLadies' Home Journal is an American magazine which first appeared on February 16, 1883, and eventually became one of the leading women's magazines of the 20th century in the United States...
- LatinaLatina (magazine)Latina is an American monthly lifestyle, entertainment, beauty and fashion magazine for bilingual, bicultural Hispanic women published in English by Latina Media Ventures. It has a combined audience of nearly 3 million....
- Life & StyleLife & Style (magazine)Life & Style, officially Life & Style Weekly is an American celebrity gossip magazine, launched in 2004 by the Bauer publishing conglomerate....
- LaIshaLaIshaLaIsha is an Israeli women's magazine. It is published on weekly basis since 1947, and is owned by Yedioth Ahronoth media group.Since 1950, LaIsha holds the annual Miss Israel beauty pageant....
(Israel) - LonnyLonny (magazine)Lonny is a bimonthly online magazine, launched in October 2009, that focuses on lifestyle and home decor.The magazine's name was formed by combining London and New York, the hometowns of its two founders, the designer Michelle Adams and the photographer Patrick Cline...
- LuckyLucky (magazine)Lucky is a shopping and style magazine which calls itself the " Ultimate Shopping Guide " and " The Magazine About Shopping ." Lucky "showcases what to wear and how to wear it, making fashion and beauty fun and accessible." Available by subscription, issues are published once a month and offer...
- LucireLucireLucire is a fashion magazine that originally began on the web in 1997, branching into a monthly print edition in its home country of New Zealand in 2004...
(New Zealand) - Ljepota&Zdravlje (Bosnia&Herzegovina)
- Marie ClaireMarie ClaireMarie Claire is a monthly women's magazine first published in France but also distributed in other countries with editions specific to them and in their languages. While each country shares its own special voice with its audience, the United States edition focuses on women around the world and...
- Martha Stewart LivingMartha Stewart LivingMartha Stewart Living is a magazine and a television show featuring entertaining and home decorating guru Martha Stewart. Both the magazine and the television program focus on the domestic arts. Martha Stewart Living began as a quarterly magazine in 1990, published by Time Inc..and is currently...
- Moondance magazineMoondance magazineMoondance Magazine is an online international women's literary, culture and art journal.The magazine began in 1996 as one of the first publications to appear online in the early days of the "World Wide Web", only three years after the first web developers from CERN in Geneva, Switzerland announced...
- MoreMore (magazine)More, launched in September 1998, is a women's lifestyle magazine published once a month by the Meredith Corporation with a rate base of 1.3 million and a circulation of 1.5 million...
- Ms.Ms. magazineMs. is an American feminist magazine co-founded by American feminist and activist Gloria Steinem and founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin together with founding editors Patricia Carbine, Joanne Edgar, Nina Finkelstein, and Mary Peacock, that first appeared in 1971 as an insert in New York magazine...
- New IdeaNew IdeaNew Idea is a long-running Australian weekly magazine published by Pacific Magazines and aimed at women.-History:The magazine was first published in 1902 by Fitchett Bros. Southdown Magazines purchased Fitchett Bros...
- New Zealand Woman's WeeklyNew Zealand Woman's WeeklyThe New Zealand Woman's Weekly is a weekly New Zealand women's magazine published by APN News & Media. , it has a circulation of 82,040, third by paid sales after TV Guide and New Zealand Woman's Day.-History:...
- Nylon (magazine)Nylon (magazine)Nylon is an American magazine that focuses on pop culture and fashion. Its coverage includes art, beauty, music, design, celebrities, technology and travel...
- O, The Oprah MagazineO, The Oprah MagazineO: The Oprah Magazine, sometimes simply abbreviated to O, is a monthly magazine founded by Oprah Winfrey and Hearst Corporation.-Overview:...
- Oh Comely
- OliviaOlivia (magazine)Olivia is a monthly Finnish magazine for Finnish women. The publication focuses on career, family, home and fashion....
(Finland) - OK!OK!OK! is a British weekly magazine specializing in celebrity news. Originally launched as a monthly, its first issue was published in April 1993. In September 2004, OK! publishers Northern and Shell launched in Australia as a monthly title – the magazine went weekly in October 2006...
(celebrity) - Oxygen
- Parenting Magazine
- Pink
- PlazaPlaza KvinnaPlaza Kvinna is a magazine published in Sweden. It was the twelfth best selling magazine in the country in 2004....
(Sweden) - Quarante (Women Over 40 magazine)
- RabotnitsaRabotnitsaRabotnitsa is a women's journal, published in the Soviet Union and Russia and one of the oldest Russian magazines for women and families. Founded in 1914, and first published on Women's Day, it is the first socialist women's journal, and the most politically left of the women's periodicals...
- Real SimpleReal SimpleReal Simple is a monthly women's interest magazine published by Time Inc.. Real Simple, which was launched by Time in 2000, features articles and information related to homekeeping, childcare, cooking and emotional wellbeing. Real Simple is distinguished by its clean, uncluttered style of layout...
- RedbookRedbookRedbook is an American women's magazine published by the Hearst Corporation. It is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines.-History:...
- Sapna magazineSapna magazineSapna is a magazine for South Asian women in the United States.- History and Background :In 2003, South Asian American culture was reaching critical mass in the United States. Sapna Magazine's objective was to create a platform for expression and development of issues and lifestyle for the South...
- SelfSelf (magazine)Self magazine is an American magazine for women that specializes in health, fitness, nutrition, beauty and happiness. Published by Condé Nast Publications 12 times a year, it has a circulation of 1,486,992 and a total audience of 5,541,000 readers, according to its corporate media kit. The...
- Shape MagazineShape MagazineShape Magazine is a monthly English language fitness magazine started by Weider Publications in 1981, founded by Christine MacIntyre and became the #1 women's fitness magazine...
- TatlerTatlerTatler has been the name of several British journals and magazines, each of which has viewed itself as the successor of the original literary and society journal founded by Richard Steele in 1709. The current incarnation, founded in 1901, is a glossy magazine published by Condé Nast Publications...
- Tea ModernaTea Moderna (magazine)Tea Moderna is a Macedonian weekly magazine for women....
(Macedonia) - Texas Family
- The LadyThe Lady (magazine)The Lady is Britain's oldest weekly women's magazine. It has been in continuous publication since 1885 and is based in London. It is particularly notable for its classified advertisements for domestic service and child care; it also has extensive listings of holiday properties.The magazine was...
- Today's Black Woman
- VeckoRevynVeckoRevynVeckoRevyn a Swedish weekly tabloid newspaper for women edited by Ebba von Sydow alongside Louise Bratt.The magazine was created in 1935 by Albert Bonnier, released by Bonniers Media Group, nowadays operating in 21 countries worldwide....
(Sweden) - Venus ZineVenus ZineVenus Zine is a quarterly internationally circulated magazine covering women in music, film, art, entertainment, literature, fashion, indie culture and DIY culture.Venuszine.com is the daily updated online companion to the magazine...
- VIVmagVIVmagVIVmag is the first exclusively digital, interactive women's lifestyle magazine. Launched in 2006 and backed by Canadian industrialist David Harrison Gilmour , the bimonthly magazine is distributed by Zinio Systems, Inc. There is no print version...
- Vogue
- W
- We Women Today (India)
- With(Japan; has Chinese version)
- Wilma (Wilmington, NC)
- Woman
- Woman's DayWoman's DayWoman's Day is aimed at a female readership, covering such subjects as food, nutrition, fitness, beauty and fashion. The magazine edition is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines....
- Woman's Era (India)
- Woman's OwnWoman's OwnWoman's Own is a British lifestyle magazine aimed at women.Woman's Own was first published in 1932. It is one of the UK's most famous women's magazines and is published by IPC Media....
- Woman's Weekly (UK magazine)Woman's Weekly (UK magazine)Woman's Weekly, published by IPC Media and edited by Diane Kenwood, is the number-one-selling brand within the mature woman’s weekly magazine sector*. On sale every Wednesday, Woman’s Weekly sells over 360,000 copies per week.- Background :...
- Women's Post Magazine
- Women's HealthWomen's Health (magazine)Women's Health, published by Rodale in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, is a magazine focusing on health, nutrition, fitness, sex, and lifestyle. It's published 10 times a year in the United States and has a circulation of 1.5 million readers...
- Women's World
- Zan-e RoozZan-e RoozZan-e Rooz was a women's magazine in Tehran which was published by Kayhan during Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's rule. After the Islamic Revolution, as women's political activity alongside men increased, publications focusing on women's issues sprang up to answer the increased demand...
(Iran)
No longer published
- Ain't I a Woman? (1970–1971, United States)
- CookieCookie (magazine)Cookie is a Japanese shōjo manga magazine published by Shueisha. As of 2008, the circulation is about 175,000.Cookie is related to Ribon. Ribon Comic, another monthly magazine which was a sister magazine of Ribon, changed its title to Bouquet in 1978...
(2005–2009, United States) - Children's Party Magazine of Washington, D.C. (1991–1996, United States)
- The DelineatorThe DelineatorThe Delineator was an American women's magazine of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, founded by the Butterick Publishing Company in 1869 under the name The Metropolitan Monthly. Its name was changed in 1875. In November 1926, under the editorship of Mrs...
(1873–1937, United States) - DominoDomino (magazine)Domino was a magazine published from 2005 to 2009 by Condé Nast Publications. Domino, whose official tag line was "the guide to living with style", was said to be for the woman who “wants to have fun on the never-ending search for items for her home.” It was targeted to women with median age of...
(2005–2009, United States) - Godey's Lady's BookGodey's Lady's BookGodey's Lady's Book, alternatively known as Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book, was a United States magazine which was published in Philadelphia. It was the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War. Its circulation rose from 70,000 in the 1840s to 150,000 in 1860...
(1830, United States) - Girlfriends magazine (1993–2006, United States)
- Jane (1997–2007, United States)
- La Belle AssembléeLa Belle AssembléeLa Belle Assemblée was a British women's magazine published from 1806 to 1837, founded by John Bell ....
(1806–1868, United Kingdom) - Ladies' MagazineLadies' MagazineThe Ladies' Magazine was an early magazine for women published in Boston, Massachusetts. Also known as Ladies Magazine and Literary Gazette and , later as American Ladies Magazine, it was designed to be American, and named to separate itself from the Lady's Magazine of London...
(1827, Boston, United States) - Lady's MagazineLady's MagazineThe Lady's Magazine or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement, was a British fashion magazine produced every month from 1770 until 1837 and cost six pence per copy. It was started in August 1770 by London bookseller John Coote and publisher John Wheble...
(1770, England) - The Ladies' MercuryThe Ladies' MercuryThe Ladies' Mercury was the first periodical published that was specifically designed just for women. It contained an advice column in the periodical. It was first published in London on February 27, 1693. - History :...
(1693, England) - MademoiselleMademoiselle (magazine)Mademoiselle was an influential women's magazine first published in 1935 by Street and Smith and later acquired by Condé Nast Publications....
(1935–2001) - McCall's Magazine (1897, United States)
- MirabellaMirabellaMirabella was a women's magazine published from 1989 to 2000. It was created by and named for Grace Mirabella, a former Vogue editor in chief....
(1989–2000, United States) - Modern Homemaking, The American Needlewoman (1929, Maine, United States)
- Modern PriscillaModern PriscillaModern Priscilla is the title of Cilla Black's tenth solo studio album and her last to be completed before the end of her 15-year contract with the EMI group...
(1887-1930, United States) - On Our BacksOn Our BacksOn Our Backs was the first women-run erotica magazine and the first magazine to feature lesbian erotica for a lesbian audience in the United States....
(1984-2006, United States) - PandoraPandoraIn Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman. As Hesiod related it, each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts...
(1971-1979, United States) - PlaygirlPlaygirlPlaygirl is a print quarterly adult magazine published in the United States that is marketed mainly to heterosexual women, but has also gained a considerable gay following...
(1973-2009, United States) - Quarante Magazine (1984-1990, United States)
- RosieRosie-People:* Rosie, nickname of Sierra Casady, , American musician, band member of CocoRosie* Rosie, the first Malayalam actress, , acted in the first Malayalam movie , Vigathakumaran...
(2001-2003, United States) - Sports Illustrated for WomenSports Illustrated for WomenSports Illustrated Women and also known as SI Women, was a bimonthly sports magazine covering "the sports that women play and what they want to follow, from basketball to tennis, soccer to volleyball, field hockey to ice hockey and figure skating and more...
(United States) - VivaViva (magazine)Viva was an adult woman's magazine that premiered in 1973 and ceased publication in 1980. Its full title was Viva, The International Magazine For Women, and it was published by Bob Guccione and his wife, Kathy Keeton. Guccione was the editor of Penthouse, an adult men's magazine, and he wanted to...
an adult women's magazine circa 1970s (United States) - Ewomen (online magazine)" for women from the Indian Subcontinent(Lucknow & Chicago)
See also
- List of teen magazines, the readership of many of which are primarily young women.
- List of men's magazines