"This book will be of crucial importance in furthering debates around women's lives in twentieth century Ireland . and add needed archival richness to debates on women's lives since partition." -- Journal of Contemporary History "Clear's well-researched book gives an interesting snapshot of a relatively recent repressed time." -- Irish Examiner "This book is successful and significant on a number of levels. It provides a rich and detailed account of popular women's magazines in Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s . The book also provides a much more nuanced account of social and cultural change in Ireland in these two decades adding much to our understandings of modern Irish history and the lives of Irish women in particular. Clear writes in an accessible manner and the inclusion of images from the magazines and the engaging content ensures that this publication will appeal not only to academics and students of history but also to those who 'never thought they were interested in history at all'." -- Reviews in History "Caitriona Clear provides an interesting and interdisciplinary perspective on select women's magazines at a pivotal time in the country's history .

The volume provides some new insights, linking the readers' letters, problems pages, and "agony aunts" to a broader women's history context that complements existing scholarship of Irish press history." -- The Journal of Magazine Media.