'Options - for the way you want to live now',or a Magazine for Superwoman

Adamson Lesley (1977), Cooking and sewing - the woman's world, Guardian, 3rd November

Brunsdon Charlotte (1982 ), A Subject for the Seventies, Screen, 23, 3-4, September/October

Cagan Elizabeth (1978), The selling of the Women's Movement, Women's Studies International Quarterly, 8

Coward Rosalind (1982), "Naughty but nice" is really "nice but naughty ", Guardian, 5th July

Curran Charles (1965), Journalism for Squaws, Spectator , 19th November, pp 650-51

Drawbell James (1968), Time on My Hands, London: Macdonald

Faulder Carolyn (1977), Women's Magazines in is This Your Life? (eds) Josephine King and Mary Stott , London: Virago

Ferguson Marjorie (1978 ), Imagery and Ideology: The Cover Photographs of Traditional Women's Magazines in Hearth and Home (eds) Gay Tuchman, Arlene Kaplan Daniels and James Benet, New York: Oxford University Press

Fox Richard (1982), The age gap that Options aims to bridge, Campaign, 5th March

Friedan Betty (1965), The Feminine Mystique, Harmondsworth: Penguin

Grieve Mary (1964), Millions Made My Story, London : Gollancz

Hackett Dennis (1982a), Weak start for Options, Campaign 12th March

Hackett Dennis (1982b), How National Magazine's new boss plans to keep the magic, Campaign, 19th March

Hall Stuart , Lumley Bob , McLennan Gregor (1977), Politics and Ideology: Gramsci in On Ideology , Working Papers in Cultural Studies, No 10, Birmingham : Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (Reprinted 1978 London: Hutchinson )

Leman Joy (1980), "The Advice of a Real Friend": Codes of Intimacy and Oppression in Women's Magazines 1937-55, Woman's Studies International Quarterly, 3

Mattelart Michele (1971), Notes on "Modernity": A Way of Reading Women's Magazines Communication and Class Struggle volume 1 (eds) Armand Mattelart and Seth Siegelaub , New York: International General and Bagnolet, France: IMMRC

Menkes Suzy (1976), The Dream Merchants, (Wolverhampton ) Express and Star, 16th October

Myers K. (1982), Towards a Feminist Erotica, Camerawork 24, March

Myrdal Alva and Klein Viola (1956), Women's Two Roles, London: Routledge Kegan Paul.

Options (1981) Launch Publication (untitled), London: IPC

Pollock Griselda (1977), What's wrong with Images of Women? Screen Education 24, Autumn

White Cynthia (1977), The Women's Periodical Press in Britain 1946-1976 , London: HMSO

Williamson Judith (1982), Leg Warmer Syndrome, City Limits , 18-24th June

Winship Janice (1980), Woman becomes an "individual" — Femininity and Consumption In Women's Magazines 1954-69, Birmingham: Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies , mimeo

Winship Janice (1981), Handling Sex, Media, Culture and Society, 3, 1