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Grocery store advertising
Watch CBS News Videos Online I am now studying the history of grocery stores. These stores provided much of the advertising for women’s pages in newspapers. Here is an interesting story about the history of grocery stores. The reporter wrote:“Women in particular were freed from the chore of shopping at several locations. ‘Supermarkets played a large role in liberating the woman,’ said Louis Bucklin, professor emeritus of business administration at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. ‘They reduced the amount of time they had to spend on shopping, with fewer trips to the store.’” I am looking to track the impact of food advertising and the content of the food…
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Voltz paper accepted & more yummy chicken
I got the great news yesterday that my paper, “Food Journalism or Culinary Anthropology? Re-evaluating Soft News and the Influence of Jeanne Voltz’s Food Section in the Los Angeles Times,” has been accepted for presentation at the American Journalism Historians Association conference in Tucson in October. Jeanne was a food editor at the Miami Herald in the 1950s and the L.A. Times in the 1960s. In celebration, I made one of Jeanne’s recipes: wine, herb-baked chicken. It’s from the Favorite Recipes of America’s Food Editors.
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More Women Without Children
The Miami Herald had this interesting column about the number of women who do not have children. According to the Pew Report, today, nearly 20 percent of women end their child bearing years without biological children, compared to 10 percent in 1976, a new Pew Research Center report shows. The columnist notes, “Researchers believe public attitudes have changed, putting less pressure on women to get married and bear children.” “The fact that nearly one in five women does not have a child of her own is an enormous transformation from the past,” says D’Vera Cohn, coauthor of the Pew report, More Women Without Children. Many of the women’s page editors…
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Writing about Gloria Biggs
Today I am writing about Gloria Biggs who went from St. Petersburg Times women’s page editor to the first female publisher in the Gannett chain. I am focusing on her conflicted feelings about feminism which I discovered in her papers in the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri. On one side were there letters in which she embraced women’s liberation. Biggs responds to a congratulatory letter from the coordinator of the Brevard County Library System: “I was delighted with your “women’s lib” list of books.” Biggs responded to a letter from the women’s editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer:I put in a very special category the words you…
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Getting history right
I have been pondering the importance of getting history right – making sure the facts are truly facts. In academia, we send out our research to peer review in the hopes of getting published. These readers can determine if the methodology is strong or if the right literature is cited. What they can typically not determine is if the story is complete. That is why I was so pleased to get the following email from Irene Nolan, formerly of the Louisville Courier Journal. (I interviewed her a few years ago for my article about Carol Sutton, a former women’s page editor and the first female managing editor of a major…
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New Vivian Castleberry video
Vivian Castleberry was the longtime women’s page editor of the Dallas Times Herald. I am writing a book about her.
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
