My book review of Freedom for Women: Forging the Women’s Liberation Movement, 1953–1970 has been published in this month’s Journal of American History. Here is part of the review: “Giardina’s role as an organizer in the movement makes her story unique. (In addition, a transcript of Giardina’s oral history is available at the Smathers Library at the University of Florida.) This book includes her views after decades of retrospection. She wrote that the purpose of her study was to highlight the role “the non-feminist social movement played – movements in which women held a contradictory position of more equal partnership and freedom for contribution.” She met her goal.The book does…

It was announced last week that Jill Abramson has been named the editor of the New York Times. The first time a woman will be in that position in the newspaper’s 160 year history. The Women’s Media Center has a great article about the promotion. Here is a portion of it:“The news last week of Jill Abramson’s promotion to executive editor of the New York Times cheered feminists and female journalists alike, perhaps no one more than the women who sued the newspaper in 1974 over sex discrimination in hiring, pay and promotion. “Finally! I thought I was not going to be able to hold my breath long enough,” said…

It was announced last week that Jill Abramson has been named the editor of the New York Times. The first time a woman will be in that position in the newspaper’s 160 year history. The Women’s Media Center has a great article about the promotion. Here is a portion of it:“The news last week of Jill Abramson’s promotion to executive editor of the New York Times cheered feminists and female journalists alike, perhaps no one more than the women who sued the newspaper in 1974 over sex discrimination in hiring, pay and promotion. “Finally! I thought I was not going to be able to hold my breath long enough,” said…

While many male editors did understand what it was that women’s page editors were trying to do to improve content, several others did. In that category, I would include J. Edward Murray or J.E.M. Letters found in several archives demonstrate his mentoring of women and his value of women’s pages. One example was found in the papers of women’s page pioneer Dorothy Jurney in the National Women and Media Collection. Jurney worked with Murray in the New Direction for News project, which documented news coverage of women’s issues, in more than a decade of her retirement. In their correspondence, Murray mentioned the difficulty that he and other male editors faced…

While many male editors did understand what it was that women’s page editors were trying to do to improve content, several others did. In that category, I would include J. Edward Murray or J.E.M. Letters found in several archives demonstrate his mentoring of women and his value of women’s pages. One example was found in the papers of women’s page pioneer Dorothy Jurney in the National Women and Media Collection. Jurney worked with Murray in the New Direction for News project, which documented news coverage of women’s issues, in more than a decade of her retirement. In their correspondence, Murray mentioned the difficulty that he and other male editors faced…