A New Wave of Women’s Pages
I am working on a response to a column that ran over the summer: A New Wave of Women’s Pages.
In it, the writer noted: “gloated a bit the day I noticed The Washington Post’s She the People blog finally did away with the smear of lipstick beneath the “She” in its logo. Though I had nothing to do with the change, I so despised that little swipe of red texture. However its disappearance came about, it felt like a victory.”
My response will be related to the chapter I am working on for our Mad Men & Women book: Lipstick was never the enemy.
The column is insightful but does gloss over the significant contributions of many women’s pages at metropolitan newspapers in the 1950s & 1960s. I will post my response next week.
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