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Women’s History Month: Day 24 & Eleanor Hart
Today’s post for day 24 of Women’s History Month is another member of the Miami Herald’s women’s pages: columnist Eleanor Ratelle who wrote under the name “Eleanor Hart.” Eleanor’s papers are at the HistoryMiami Archives. They include several of Eleanor’s scrapbooks with entries from “A Column With Heart.” The advice column ran in the women’s section of the Miami Herald in the 1950s and 1960s. One of her most direct address to gender roles was in relation to an October 5, 1966 from reader, C.M.R. He identified himself as the husband of a stay-at-home wife with six children. He wrote: “I read the series by Lois Benjamin about the so-called…
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Review of Gossip Book
Happy to read the positive review of the book about gender and gossip, When Private Talk Goes Public in the Journal of American History. My chapters is about the women’s page editors who covered black brides and political news, including Koky Dishon and Vera Glaser.
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Book Review: When Private Talk Goes Public
I was happy to see this review of When Private Talk Goes Public. I wrote a chapter about the women’s pages of newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s. From New Books in American Studies:“Across a series of twelve essays, When Private Talk Goes Public: Gossip in American History (Palgrave McMillan, 2014) examines the important and understudied role gossip has played in American history. Whether fashioned as “rumor, hearsay, tittle-tattle, scuttlebutt, scandal, [or] dirt,” gossip in its many forms is a central, if often discounted feature of American life. Kathleen A. Feeley and Jennifer A. Frost’s compilation spans five centuries, exploring gossip from the early colonial period through its modern reinvention…
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Gossip & the Women’s Pages
The book When Private Talk Goes Public: Gossip in American History is now up on Amazon. My chapter is: “Gossip in the Women’s Pages: Examining and Legitimizing the Work of Female Journalists in the 1950s and 1960s.” In it, I examine the role gossip played in the coverage of society news, brides and politics in the women’s pages. The book comes out in August.
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Thinking of Betty Ewing
I was sad to see that Larry Hagman has died. Hagman was best known for playing J.R. Ewing on the longtime television show Dallas. Houston women’s page journalist and society reporter Betty Ewing was happy when the show became popular. Prior to that, many people mispronounced her last name as “Urine.” Lance and I went through Betty’s papers several years ago at Texas Woman’s University.
