Edee Greene
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Women Wearing Pants
My paper, “Who’s Wearing the Pants? How The New York Times Reported the Changing Dress of Women,” has just been published in the current issue of Media Report to Women. The wearing of pants was a controversial topic, symbolizing the concern over the changing role of gender roles in society. For some people, pants were another step toward equality for women. For others pants meant losing femininity – almost to the point of androgyny. After all, “the meaning of clothing is culturally defined.” To learn more about the national conversation, the New York Times coverage over a 25-year period was examined through the newspaper’s database. Each article that came up…
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Happy Mother’s Day
Several women’s page journalists were mothers, including Vivian Castleberry, Edee Greene, Jane Nickerson and Dorothee Polson. They each had at least three children while also working as journalists. This was at a time when there was no daycare or maternity leave. These women had to pave their own ways as working mothers. A special recognition of my favorite toddler who loves pudding. He is taking his mother to the beach today. Happy Mother’s Day!
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Happy Mother’s Day
Several women’s page journalists were mothers, including Vivian Castleberry, Edee Greene, Jane Nickerson and Dorothee Polson. They each had at least three children while also working as journalists. This was at a time when there was no daycare or maternity leave. These women had to pave their own ways as working mothers. A special recognition of my favorite toddler who loves pudding. He is taking his mother to the beach today. Happy Mother’s Day!
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Wedding News
There has been quite an outcry about this New York Times wedding story that ran on Sunday. Wedding news was a large part of women’s pages – and at many newspapers, that is where social change occurred. In the 1950s, Colleen “Koky” Dishon changed the practice of running large bride photos of prominent families in the Milwaukee Sentinel. Instead, the size of all photos were equal. From the day Vivian Castleberry started working at the Dallas Times Herald in the 1950s, she said that she intended to publish pictures of African-American brides, although it was against policy. When she asked for permission to publish photos of African-American brides on a…
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Fort Lauderdale
The New York Times just ran a great story about visiting Fort Lauderdale. We recently made plans to visit the Florida city this spring for a history conference. One of my favorite women’s page editors, Edee Greene, was at the Fort Lauderdale News. Unlike many of the forgotten women I study, Edee was recognized and celebrated for her impact in her community. This is from her obituary: Mrs. Greene is credited with founding Women in Distress, a social service agency that has helped 246,000 homeless and abused women and children since 1974. “She’ll be remembered as someone who uplifted the women of this county,” said Gretchen Thompson, a longtime friend…
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Fort Lauderdale
The New York Times just ran a great story about visiting Fort Lauderdale. We recently made plans to visit the Florida city this spring for a history conference. One of my favorite women’s page editors, Edee Greene, was at the Fort Lauderdale News. Unlike many of the forgotten women I study, Edee was recognized and celebrated for her impact in her community. This is from her obituary: Mrs. Greene is credited with founding Women in Distress, a social service agency that has helped 246,000 homeless and abused women and children since 1974. “She’ll be remembered as someone who uplifted the women of this county,” said Gretchen Thompson, a longtime friend…
