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Anne Rowe Goldman paper
I am working on my conference paper about St. Pete women’s page editor Anne Rowe Goldman. I am adding information today from the Penney-Missouri papers at the University of Missouri, including the Matrix article in this post. One of Rowe Goldman’s biggest projects was transforming the women’s page into a features section called “Day.”
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Roberta Applegate article
I found this Miami Herald article written by women’s page journalist Roberta Applegate in the Nixon Presidential Library. Although the Herald typically had a strong women’s page, this story is just fluff. It must have been a disappointing assignment for Roberta who had a hard news background. (I wrote an article about Roberta in 2007.) I am looking through the Nixon finding guides for information about a White House Task Force about women hat included women’s page journalist Vera Glaser.
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Anne Rowe Goldman interviewed
I just came across this video of St. Pete’s women’s page editor Anne Rowe Goldman. It’s the first time I have heard her speak and seen an image of her husband, Sanford. Here is a link to a transcript of the interview. Here is a link to a story about their house – it was designed by Sanford Goldman. I am speaking with one of her daughters later today. I am working on an article about Anne for presentation next month.
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Florida ERA
The Fall 2009 issue of the Florida Historical Quarterly with my article about the media’s coverage of the ERA is now out. Here is a link to the issue. Here is a link to the actual article.
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Pants research
This morning I am working on a paper about the debate over women wearing pants. This debate was about more than fashion as pants symbolized the change in women’s roles in society and the fear over that change. I have collected New York Times articles about women wearing pants as I look for themes in that coverage. Some of the articles are in the women’s pages but the story also reached the news sections. In the article above, a judge is critical of a woman who wore pants to traffic court. This paper is part of my research agenda that looks at the four Fs of the women’s pages: family,…
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Helen Muir clip
Helen Muir was a Miami women’s page journalist and a library activist. She was a good friend of fellow women’s page journalists Dorothy Jurney and Jeanne Voltz. I have gone through her papers at the University of Miami. Below is a clip of Helen from a PBS program.
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