Dorothy Jurney
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How the Tenure Process Can Marginalize Women in History
This post was inspired by Heather Cox Richardson’s post yesterday about mothers in the academy. In addition to excellent points about motherhood, she offered a reminder of what women often bring to research as they sometimes look for new topics or at an issue in a different way. In looking back post-tenure, it worries me that the requirements needed for tenure at an R-1 institution may lead to the marginalization of women in history. At my university, like many other schools, tenure means being a national expert – publishing in national journals. This means that research is largely about national figures, usually men. In fact, in what was intended to…
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Women’s History Month: Dorothy Jurney
Day two of Women’s History Month features Dorothy Jurney who was known as the godmother of the women’s pages. She is pictured above without glasses (The woman in the glasses is Marie Anderson – I will blog about her tomorrow.) Jurney was a groundbreaking women’s page editor who encouraged other editors to improve the content of their sections. Like Marjorie who I blogged about yesterday, Dorothy worked on the hard news side during World War II and as forced back to the women’s pages in peacetime. In 1950, she revolutionized the women’s pages of the Miami Herald and mentored Marie Anderson to take her place. Below are some resources about…
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Day Seven: Women’s Page History in 7 Objects
The seventh object that represents the women’s page is a quilt. Most of journalism history considers the content of women’s pages to be soft news. Yet, a closer examination of the women’s sections in the 1950s and 1960s shows more complex content. There was soft news – personality profiles, fashion stories and features. There were also stories about politics, education news and family violence. The women’s page editors created a new kind of news within the social fabric of their communities – a kind of quilted news. Quilts have become recognized as art – largely women’s art – in recent decades. Some credit the counterculture’s arts-and-crafts movement in the 1960s…
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Day Three: Women’s Page History in 7 Objects
For day three of Women’s Page History in 7 Objects – the item is white gloves. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was expected that the women’s page journalist would wear white gloves when out on assignment. Dallas women’s page journalist Vivian Castleberry said she never went anywhere without a reporter’s notebook and white gloves. She told me that even the members of the Garden Club would wear white gloves at groundbreaking ceremonies. Here is a link to a documentary about Vivian that I was happy to be a part of. Above is an image of trailblazing women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney wearing gloves – seated next to Miami Herald…
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National Women & Media Collection
I was so excited to see this update to the National Women & Media Collection. It includes biographies of several great women’s page editors as well as some images I had never seen before. This is an image of legendary women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney interviewing Imelda Marcos in Malacanang Palace, the official residence of the President of the Philippines, in 1969. Here is my article in Journalism History about Jurney. I had also never seen this photo of Marjorie Paxson with a giant fish in Florida. Paxson was a women’s page editor in Houston and St. Petersburg, Florida among other places. Here is my article about Paxson. Lastly, I…
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Women’s Clubs, Advertising & Wearing White Gloves
This morning I am revising an AEJMC conference paper that was called: “Mad Men and Reasonable Women: Selling Bras Rather Than Burning Them.” I am focusing on how women were making some inroads in 1960s adverting in products aimed at women, arguing that the selling of lipstick or bras should not be looked at as “lesser than” the selling of other products especially at a time when there were limited areas for women to claim authority. For a framework, I am making a comparison of Mad Men’s Peggy to Helen Gurley Brown who was a successful advertising copywriter before her time at Cosmo. Jane Maas would be another example –…
