Book chapter about women and gossip
I learned on Friday that my proposal for a book chapter about women and gossip had been accepted – the CFP was on H-Net. This was the call for proposed chapters.
I am looking at the concept through the role of gossip both in the political columns and the advice columns that ran in women’s pages. While both kinds of columns have been discounted because either they contained “women’s news” or were in the “women’s sections,” these columns played important roles.
One of the most significant political columnists was Vera Glaser – she is pictured above. Lance and I went through her papers several years ago at the University of Wyoming. Here is a link to part of my paper about Vera that was presented at the American Journalism Historians Association-Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, History Division, Meeting, March 2009, New York City.
This book chapter will shine the light on several marginalized women in journalism history, including Vera Glaser.
