This chapter focuses on two important lessons that can be learned from the historical study. The first concerns the persistence of popular ideologies; the second, the relevance of a labouring agency and extra-discursive tactics to bring about social change. Important changes as well as persistent similarities in both the workplace and in communication technologies will be accounted for in drawing parallels between the twentieth-century popular and protest. Tactics of social protest and mass confrontation, which were successful in bringing about change in the real world, were replaced in the pages of the magazines by domestic activism. Feminism's associated desires for self-control and freedom also become transferred onto the body, which in popular culture is upheld as the quintessential locus for exercising autonomy. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.