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Happy Birthday to Curtis
Today Curtis turns three years old – this is a photo of him at EPCOT taken last weekend. He is named for the husband of Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry – Curtis Castleberry – and the husband of Arizona women’s page editor Maggie Savoy – Jim Bellows. Jim was also a great champion for women in the newsroom. Happy Birthday to Curtis!
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Society Coverage
I am finishing the revisions on my book chapter on women and gossip – focusing on the content of the women’s pages. Today I wrote about Kathryn Robinette. Kathryn Robinette won Penney-Missouri Awards for her women’s section of the Palm Beach Post in 1966 and 1968. She earned an undergraduate degree and then a master’s degree in English from the University of Chicago before trying women’s page journalism in 1960 in Georgia. She wrote in a letter: “I typed weddings and all that tiresome stuff but managed to fall in love with the work anyway. I also formed firm opinions about what type of story best served the reader’s interest…
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- Anne Rowe, Edee Greene, Florida Women's Pages, journalism history, Marie Anderson, Roberta Applegate
Talk at Urban Rethink
I enjoyed speaking about Florida women’s page editors and their role in building community at Urban ReThink on Tuesday night. I spoke about Marie Anderson and Roberta Applegate from the Miami Herald; Anne Rowe from the St. Petersburg Times and Edee Greene from the Fort Lauderdale News. A highlight of the experience was speaking with Edee’s grandson Patrick. Here is a link to my PowerPoint from the talk.
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Another The Feminist Kitchen Post
Here is my latest post on the blog The Feminist Kitchen. It is about feminism and Pinterest and includes information about the women’s pages. It was inspired by this blog post.
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EPCOT Food & Wine Festival
We went to the Food & Wine Festival at EPCOT today. This is the kind of food news that would have been covered in the women’s pages of newspapers.
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Gloria Steinem Talk
I heard a great speech by Gloria Steinem at UCF today. Many feminists, including Steinem, initially fought for elimination of the women’s pages and several later changed their minds. For example, Steinem said in 1972, “I have come back full circle in that I now feel the value of the women’s pages.” The problem was that by the time Steinem and others had reversed course, most women’s page editors had been demoted or left the newspaper.
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
