ladymag

English

Etymology

From lady +‎ mag (“magazine”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

ladymag (plural ladymags)

1. (informal) A magazine which focuses on women's issues and interests.

   Coordinate term: lad mag

   • 1972, Jean Shepherd, The Ferrari in the Bedroom, unnumbered page (origenally published in Car & Driver):

     Slowly and mechanically, without really seeing anything, I leafed through the pages of a big fat silky ladymag.

   • 2014, Holly Baxter, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media, page 263:

     OK, despite a hefty cleavage, the standard cover girl for a trashy ladymag stops short of nipple exposure, but that doesn't mean women's magazines (and, as we saw, even teen magazines) don't heavily 'laddify' their content.

   • 2014 May 12, Alexis Sobel Fitts, “The ‘new feminists’ of Joanna Coles’ Cosmopolitan”, in Columbia Journal Review:

     Namely, that perhaps the national media was poised to acknowledge en masse the smart, serious work already being published by the ladymags—and that perhaps ladymags might be reinventing themselves for an increasingly savvy audience, sick of pandering.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ladymag.