- Dorothy Chapman, Florida history, Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, Jeanne Voltz, Marie Anderson, Marjorie Paxson
Florida Council for History Education
I had a great time talking about Florida women’s page editors in Sarasota at the Florida Council for History Education. It was a full room with some great questions.
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Chicago Tribune Society Writer Eleanor Page
I came across a new women’s page figure for my upcoming book: society reporter Eleanor Page. According to her obituary: “At the height of American society reporting after World War II, Mrs. Voysey, who always wrote under her maiden name Eleanor Page, helped establish the criteria that set members of Chicago’s elite apart from those in other cities. She contended one could be admitted into New York society by having money; in the South, with an important family name. In Chicago, she later wrote, only charity work had the power to allow someone to know everyone and go everywhere.” In the book, Re-Evaluating Women’s Page Journalism in the Post-World War…
- Florida history, Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, Marjorie Paxson, Polly Paffilas, women's history
Talking About Florida Women’s Page Editors
I am looking forward to presenting “Pioneering Florida Women’s Page Journalists: Managing Conflict and Encouraging Compromise in Their Communities, 1950s and 1960s,” at the Florida Council for History Education conference in Sarasota. Mixed in with the advertisements in the 1950s and 1960s, there were several newspaper women’s pages that included stories that were part of the women’s movement’s platform – stories about domestic violence, the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion reform. These stories reached large audiences and impacted the work of other editors and women leaders. The circulations of the papers were high so the work of the women editors reached large segments of their own communities and sometimes beyond…
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Writing Women into the Curriculum
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My Gainesville Book Talk: August 26th
I am looking forward to talking about my women & politics book in Gainesville next month. From the announcement:“The Matheson History Museum is thrilled to welcome back Kimberly Wilmot Voss to discuss her latest book “Women Politicking Politely: Advancing Feminism in the 1960s and 1970s.” “Women Politicking Politely” covers the relatively unknown stories of six women who helped lay the foundation for advancing women’s equality in the U.S. They largely worked behind the scenes but were as equally important as the leaders of the women’s liberation movement. These particular women were chosen for the book because of their interactions with each other as they rallied around a common cause and…
- Marjorie Paxson, National Women and Media Collection, women and journalism, women and news, women and politics
Upcoming Marjorie Paxson Publications
With the weak obituary published by Marjorie Paxson’s newspaper, I have written about her significance. There will be an article in the State Historical Society of Missouri newsletter and the Media Report To Women. I also nominated her (again) for the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame.
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New Women’s Page Journalist Find
I was happy to find a new women’s page journalist to include in my current book project: Marie McNair of the Washington Post. From her obituary:“Mrs. McNair, like the Post Office of her day, did not let rain nor sleet nor dark of night prevent her from finishing her appointed rounds. On some snowy nights, she had been known to persuade police scout drivers and postal trucks to deliver her to embassy parties when newspaper autos and taxis found the going too rough. But she was not, by her own account, infallible. She once told a Post reporter that she remembered that “it was on my first assignment to cover…
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