In Cultural Studies & the Study of Popular Culture by John Storey, I found the section on media consumption and repertoires to the be most interesting. It first addresses how magazines can act as ‘friends’ for women by bringing women together in their pages – “and yet by not providing the knowledge to allow women to see the history of their common social condition, sadly and ironically, they come between women, expecting and encouraging, them to do alone what they can only do together” (98).  The section explains Joke Hermes and her study of women reading magazines and the affect it may have on them.  She addresses the false depictions mediated by women’s magazines.  (99) 

• (100) media consumption: in other words, rather than begin with a cultural text and show how people appropriate it and make it meaningful, or begin with the contexts of cultural consumption and show how these constrain
• (100) repertoires: the cultural resources that speakers fall back on and refer to.. moreover, texts do not directly have meaning.. reps make them
• (101) Hermes identifies the four repertoires: ‘easily put down’; ‘relaxation’; practical knowledge; and emotional learning and connected knowing.  
• She relates them into the way that women read magazines and then apply what they have learned into the real world.
• the study identifies the many problems with women magazines because they provide a very inaccurate representation of the female body and include stories that are very unrealistic and is somewhat of a ‘fairy tale’