Het Rijk der Vrouw

Het Rijk der Vrouw

Categories	Women's magazine Lifestyle magazine
Founded	1925
Final issue	1990
Country	Belgium
Based in	Brussels
Language	Dutch
OCLC	428437809

Het Rijk der Vrouw (Dutch: Woman's Realm) was a Belgian women's magazine published in Brussels between 1925 and 1990.

History and profile

The magazine was established in 1924,[1] and its first issue appeared in 1925.[2][3] Its original title was Het Modeblad.[3] It was published by n.v. Het Rijk der Vrouw which was part of a company owned by Jan Meuwissen.[3] The focus of the magazine was on fashion for women and girls.[3] The magazine was renamed as Het Rijk der Vrouw in 1931 after it was redesigned.[3]

Femmes d'Aujourd'hui was its sister publication, and both magazines were acquired by the publishing company J. Hoste in 1975.[3] Later, Het Rijk der Vrouw became part of Almaspar.[4] Mediaxis bought the magazine in 1990.[3]

It was a conservative magazine emphasizing family values and connoisseurship.[2][5] Its target audience was young women as well as experienced housewives.[6] The magazine covered articles on fashion, home decoration and marriage.[6] It also featured photonovels from the issue 617 dated 27 February 1957.[3]

In 1990 Het Rijk der Vrouw went bankrupt and then, merged with Libelle, another Belgian women's magazine.[7][8]

See also

• List of magazines in Belgium

References

1. "Archive. Het rijk der vrouw". Libelle (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 15 May 2013.
2. Martina Temmerman; Maaike Van de Voorde (2015). "Absent husbands and whispering voices: a critical analysis of the representation of men in two popular Flemish women's magazines". Journal of Gender Studies. 24 (1): 3–17. doi:10.1080/09589236.2013.790799. S2CID 144333778.
3. Clarissa Colangelo (2023). The Belgian Photonovel, 1954-1985: An Introduction. Leuven: Leuven University Press. pp. 70–72, 79. ISBN 978-94-6166-511-9. JSTOR j.ctv34wmmc0.
4. Pierre Musso; Philippe Souêtre; Lionel Levasseur (1995). The Printed Press and Television in the Regions of Europe. The Netherlands: Council of Europe. p. 127. ISBN 978-92-871-2807-2.
5. Mieke Ceulemans; Guido Fauconnier (2015). "Mass Media: The Image, Role, and Social Conditions of Women". International Women Online Journal of Distance Education. 4 (2).
6. Maaike Van de Voorde; Martina Temmerman (2014). "Feminism and Women's Magazines". In Rosario Lacalle Zalduendo (ed.). II International Conference Gender and Communication. Editorial Dykinson, S.L. p. 37. ISBN 978-84-9085-029-9.
7. Maaike Van de Voorde (December 2014). "'Super creams for young eyes': Women's magazines' hybrid approach to journalism". Hybridity and the News Hybrid Forms of Journalism in the 21st Century: 222–242.
8. Katia Segers; Joke Bauwens; Nele Van Den Cruyce (2009). "Reflections of a Child. Depicting Healthy Childhood in the 1940s and 1960s". Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire. 87 (3–4): 759–774. doi:10.3406/rbph.2009.7703.