Roughing it in the Suburbs: Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties

Originally launched in 1928, by the 1950s and 1960s nearly two million readers every month sampled "Chatelaine" magazine's eclectic mixture of traditional and surprisingly unconventional articles and editorials. At a time when the American women's magazine market began to flounder thanks to the advent of television, "Chatelaine's" subscriptions expanded, as did the lively debate between its pages.

Why?

In this exhilarating study of Canada's foremost women's publication in the 50s…