Women in American Journalism: A New History
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0252075560
ISBN 13
9780252075568
Category
Democracy, Civil Society, Good Governance, Rule of Law (Red label)
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Publication Year
2008
Publisher
Pages
216
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Description
Jan Whitt tells the stories of women who have been overlooked in journalism history, offering an important corrective to scholarship that narrowly focuses on the deeds of men like Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. She explores the lives of women reporters who achieved significant historical recognition, such as Ida Tarbell and Ida Wells-Barnett, as well as literary authors such as Joan Didion, Susan Orlean, Willa Cather, and Eudora Welty, whose work blends influences from both journalism and literature. This study shows how numerous women broadened the editorial scope of newspapers and journals, transformed women’s professional roles, used journalism as a training ground for major literary works, and led breakthroughs in lesbian and alternative presses. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
