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Milwaukee Journal’s women’s pages
I am working on the fashion, food and furnishing stories in the women’s pages of the Milwaukee Journal in the 1950s and 1960s. I came across an interesting quote from food writer Clarice Rowlands. In a profile of her – after winning an award – she is asked the question that tends to irritate many food writers: Does she cook? (Fashion writers hated to be asked if they sewed.) These women found it undermined their roles as journalists. After all, a sports journalist isn’t asked if he played baseball. This was Rowlands’ 1961 response: “No, I am a reporter in the field and it is not any more necessary for…
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Why Broadsheet’s Demise Isn’t Progress : Ms Magazine Blog
Why Broadsheet’s Demise Isn’t Progress : Ms Magazine Blog In the 1970′s, women’s liberation movement leaders called for the end of the women’s pages, arguing that women’s news should be on the front pages and in the news sections. It was a great idea in theory but it failed in practice. Newspapers responded by replacing women’s pages with lifestyle or entertainment sections, but they didn’t increase coverage of women’s issues
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Changes for the WHMC
It was sad to learn about the changes at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri – especially the loss of jobs for some of my favorite archivists. Here is the story. It is this archive that holds the National Women and Media Collection. In it are the papers of women’s page journalists Roberta Applegate, Marie Anderson, Gloria Biggs, Dorothy Jurney, Eleni Epstein and Marjorie Paxson – whose donation initiated the Collection. Lance and made numerous trips to the Ellis Library and count it as our favorite archive. I worry that the marginalization of the WHMC will also marginalize the NWMC which will celebrate its 25th year…
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Florida History Conference & Janet Chusmir
I just learned my paper “You Can’t Hug a Newspaper”: Janet Chusmir, the Miami Herald and Newspaper Management,” has been accepted for presentation at the Florida Conference of Historians. The title is a quote from Janet. The Conference is in Fort Lauderdale in April. For years, women in newspaper management had few role models. If they were mentored it was by a man. Many of these managers were hard-hitting, tough-talking men. Those first female leaders rarely had families – there was no career path. Then came Janet Chusmir. She was the exception. After earning a journalism degree and raising a family, she entered the workforce. After a few years as…
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Kay Mills Has Died
I was saddened to hear of the sudden death of pioneering journalist and author Kay Mills. She wrote the most significant book about women in journalism. It’s called A Place in the News: From the Women’s Pages to the Front Pages. It was my first knowledge of women’s pages and changed the course of my research agenda. According to her obit: “Mills was driven to write “A Place in the News” because, she told the New York Times some years ago, “I was trying to sort out why this profession I cared so much about really didn’t return the favor for women — and I might add, minorities — for…
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Thank You, Justice Scalia, for Helping Revive the ERA : Ms Magazine Blog
Thank You, Justice Scalia, for Helping Revive the ERA : Ms Magazine Blog
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A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
