{"id":1224,"date":"2013-08-21T12:21:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T12:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:54","slug":"lads-mags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2013\/08\/21\/lads-mags\/","title":{"rendered":"Lad\u2019s mags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co-operative.coop\/corporate\/Press\/Press-releases\/Headline-news\/The-Co-operative-calls-for-lads-mags-to-cover-up\/\">Cooperative Supermarket<\/a>s have called for a number of men\u2019s magazines to tone down or remove\u00a0 images of women from their covers. The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2013\/aug\/08\/zoo-nuts-magazines-cooperative-group\"> Guardian\u00a0<\/a> has a good coverage of the story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It also has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2013\/may\/27\/lose-lads-mags-risk-legal-action\">letter from lawyers<\/a> on the topic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingweek.co.uk\/news\/co-op-issues-lads-mags-ultimatum\/4007478.article\">Marketing Wee<\/a>k is also covering the issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For further details on the campaign to remove these magazines from public display see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.losetheladsmags.org.uk\/\">Lose the Lads<\/a> Mags website which is supported by a number of feminist groups.<\/p>\n<p>For details on the readership of these magazines and comparisons with other popular titles get free basic recent data from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrs.co.uk\/nrs-data-tables\/\">National Readership Survey.<\/a> \u00a0 Nuts and Zoo are listed under general weeklies.\u00a0 The site also gives data by age, sex and region for readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cooperative Supermarkets have called for a number of men\u2019s magazines to tone down or remove\u00a0 images of women from their covers. The Guardian\u00a0 has a good coverage of the story.\u00a0 It also has a letter from lawyers on the topic. Marketing Week is also covering the issue.\u00a0 For further details on the campaign to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[24,64,67,241,243],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-and-communication","category-sociology","tag-body-image-2","tag-journalism","tag-magazines","tag-media-and-communication","tag-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}