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Young Ruthe Deskin
Came across this great image of a young Ruthe Deskin – who was a women’s page editor in Reno before becoming a significant Las Vegas journalist. Lance and I wrote an article about her a few years ago.
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Women’s Pages Thesis
I was so happy to find this thesis about the women’s pages in Kansas.
- club women history, women and journalism, women and news, women and politics, women's history, women's page history
Review of Women Politicking Politely
I was so happy to read this review of my book, Women Politicking Politely.
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Celebrating Women Politicking Politely
Happy to have my Women Politicking Politely book celebrated!
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Fighting the Stereotype of the Women’s Pages
I came across another media article that includes the incorrect stereotype of the women’s pages. It was in the Tampa Bay Times:“Restaurant criticism isn’t a hallowed profession. It was essentially invented by Craig Claiborne at the New York Times in the early 1960s. Food writing had previously been on newspapers’ “women’s pages” (Food Fashions Family Furnishings!), mostly casserole recipes adjacent to “how to grow a better begonia.” It was Jane Nickerson who was the first restaurant critic at the New York Times – prior to Claiborne. I wrote about her in the New York City Food Encyclopedia, Savoring Gotham. I also wrote about Nickerson and her fellow newspaper food editors…
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Cover for Women’s Pages Books
Considering these two options for the cover of my upcoming book about the women’s pages. In it I explore the important women who oversaw these sections in the 1950s & 1960s, as well as the significant content of these sections.