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Joan Younger Dickinson’s work
I just received this book, The Stork and You, written by Joan Younger Dickinson. (I tracked it down on Amazon.) The book was an early version of What to Expect When You Are Expecting. JYD had been a wire reporter during World War II and then a staff writer for the Ladies Home Journal. She wrote the book after she had her child Rosalind. I found this copy of the March 1947 Ladies Home Journal on eBay. It includes two long stories by JYD: “The Hard Price of Soft Coal” and “The Volunteer Worker, 1947 Style.” I am continuing to work on article about Joan’s career.
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Vivian Castleberry documentary
Last night, Dallas PBS affiliate aired the documentary Texas Trailblazers about Vivian Castleberry, a longtime Dallas women’s page editor. There was a screening at the Women’s Museum in Dallas. I flew out to Dallas in March to be interviewed for the documentary. This is a photo of me with Vivian at her home last summer.
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Helen Gurley Brown
I just got the assignment to review the book, Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown. Before she became well known as the editor of Cosmo magazine, Helen Gurley Brown had a popular column for single women that ran in the women’s pages. This photo is of Helen from 1964. Newspapers across the country ran Helen Gurley Brown’s column, “The Woman Alone” in the 1960s. Her 1962 book, Sex and the Single Girl, had caused a sensation. The book encouraged women’s independence – and a little contradiction thrown in. For example, she advises that a woman have an apartment of her own and that she have a…
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Molly Ivins’ library
Here’s some information on Molly Ivins. We went through her papers last month at the University of Texas and found some great stuff. I am writing an article about Molly’s early years in Minnesota.
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Women’s Pages & The American Prospect article
Ann Friedman’s article the “Trouble with Double X” is now available on The American Prospect website. Ann interviewed me yesterday about how women’s pages compare to women-based websites. It’s a great article.
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New image of Florida Sen. Lori Wilson
Today I found this image of Florida Sen. Lori Wilson – she is sticking her tongue out at Gov. Bob Graham. It can be found in the Florida Memory Project. I am finishing revisions on an article about Sen. Wilson, her fight for the Equal Rights Amendment and the Florida media’s coverage of the issue. I focus on the coverage in the women’s pages and then the news sections. The manuscript is a revise and resubmit for a state history journal.
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
