For Adam AND Eve? (Eve)

Member Name: cswann

Product:	Eve
Date:	05/10/00 (36 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Very varied

Disadvantages: Not cheap

I like this magazine - it's glossy, but has more substance to it than the usual women's magazine
It's from the BBC, so you assume it's trying to educate, slightly anyway, and the tone reminds me of the quality Sunday papers. But there is certainly a sense of humour there too, a touch of irreverence - for example, an article on thrush (infection) with illustrations of thrushes (birds).
It's packed with features: food; health section with genuinely useful information; gardening; house-y type things. There are fairly serious articles e.g. one on the bionic man (with an artificial limb) and one on global threats like pollution and GM food. I'm not really sure how well this all sits with the beauty-products-I-can't-manage-without type of feature, though.
I'm not sure how well this sits with the more usual women's mag fare, but it makes for a varied read.
The fashion items and the beauty items are grouped together in neat sections, which I like, mainly because I always skip them!
I can't help thinking that it's trying to be a women's magazine for women who want to do the same things as men, or be more like a man, somehow? Perhaps it's best described as a general interest magazine, rather than a women's magazine. But then why call it a name like "Eve"?

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