Citations:ladymag

Noun: "(informal) a magazine which focuses on women's issues and interests"

 * 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.
 * 2013, Anna Carey, "'Feminists do the best Photoshop': the independent women's magazines getting it right", New Statesmen, 24 July 2013:
 * But I look forward to every issue of these new ladymags.
 * 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, Eve Epstein & Leonora Epstein, X vs. Y: A Culture War, a Love Story, page 86:
 * And between all the texting, social networking, Internet stalking, and online dating (more on that later), it's generally led to what social scientists and ladymags like to call a “hookup culture,” a term we rarely ever use to describe ourselves.
 * 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.
 * 2015, Megan Burbank, "How to Lift a Man Over Your Head", The Portland Mercury, 21 January 2015:
 * Last year, writer and weightlifter Hieu Truong drafted a comprehensive workout plan with this very goal in mind for the women's general-interest website the Toast, co-opting both 2014's trendy ironic misandry and workout spreads in mainstream ladymags.
 * 2016, Autumn Whitefield-Madrano, Face Value: The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives, page 41:
 * I mean, I'd read stories about makeup in ladymags; was that all it was?
 * 2018, Cristen Conger & Caroline Ervin, Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Claiming Your Space, unnumbered pages:
 * In 1883, Englishman Francis Galton argued for segregation and forced sterilization of the "unfit." His ideas flourished in the early twentieth century Even Cosmopolitan (a decidedly less sexy ladymag back then) got in on the action, encouraging its readers to jump on the "inspiring" chance for hereditary betterment and elimination of disability.