- Drue Lytle, Honolulu Advertiser, National Women and Media Collection, Pat Millard-Hunter, women and journalism, women and news
Honolulu Advertiser Women’s Pages in the 1960s
I am working on a journal article about Hawaii women’s page journalists Drue Lytle and Pat Hunter. They both won Penney-Missouri Awards so I found their letters to and from Awards’ director Paul Myhre. The file also included Hunters’ award-winning series about child abuse, LSD and divorce laws.
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Photo of Anne Rowe in the Tampa Bay Times
I was happy to see Anne Rowe’s photo with Elvis in the Tampa Bay Times. She was the longtime women’s page editor at the St. Petersburg Times. Here is an article I wrote about her. Here is an AJHA newsletter article I wrote about Anne Rowe.
- Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, Miami Herald, National Women and Media Collection, women and journalism, women and politics
Women Politicking Politely: Advancing Feminism in the 1960s and 1970s
I enjoyed speaking about my book Women Politicking Politely at the 2017 UCF Nicholson Symposium.
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Fargo Women’s Page Editor Doris Eastman
I came across a new women’s page editor: Doris Eastman of Fargo, North Dakota. From her obituary:” Upon graduation from Fargo Central High School in 1934, she went to work at the Moorhead, MN, Daily News and wrote stories for the society section. There she met Edward Eastman, who was the city editor. They married in 1938 and Doris left the workforce to raise three sons. In 1951, she joined the Forum, and was promoted to women’s editor in 1958. She also wrote a weekly column for 20 years. She won many awards from the North Dakota Press Women and the National Federation of Press Women.” From another obituary: “At…
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From Pant(aloon)s to Pussy Hats: Feminist Dress as Media Spectacle
Fashion as Feminism: Pants as Literal and Symbolic Liberation as Described by Newspaper Fashion EditorsKimberly Voss, PhD, Associate Professor, Univ of Central FloridaAJHA, 2017 AbstractIn the late 1960s and into the 1970s, one fashion debate was whether women should wear pants in business and social situations. Dress reform had been an issue for decades, beginning with Amelia Bloomer and female suffrage. To some people, the wearing of pants symbolized a threat to gender distinctions at a changing time. For others, it was a form of liberation that was covered in the fashion pages. In 1957, The New York Times noted that physician Mary Walker was awarded the Medal of Honor…
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Raleigh Women’s Page Editor
Came across a women’s page editor from North Carolina: Bette Elliott of the Raleigh Times. She came in a second-place for the 1962 Penney-Missouri Award competition. She also had a local television show. From a service for her life:” A former colleague told of how as the Women’s section editor of The Raleigh Times newspaper, she rang the bell for the Salvation Army in front of a downtown Raleigh ABC store. Everyone was afraid not to give, for fear she would list their names in her column. People also remembered her tall statue and beauty. Her daughter Carmen spoke of how she was abandoned by her husband and the proud…
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