ladymag
English
Etymology
lady + mag (“magazine”).
Noun
ladymag (plural ladymags)
- (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 (originally 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, Alexis Sobel Fitts, "The ‘new feminists’ of Joanna Coles’ Cosmopolitan", Columbia Journal Review, 12 May 2014:
- 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 examples of usage of this term, see Citations:ladymag.