Maggie Savoy
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Did Feminism Kill Home Cooking?
Some critics have blamed feminism for the lack of home cooking today and the increased reliance on convenience food. (Isn’t it sad that feminism is blamed for so much and rarely given credit for what feminism helped women achieve.) Perhaps the most vocal of these was food writer Michael Pollan who wrote in a 2009 essay in the New York Times. He wrote that one of the reasons that women do not cook was that women went to work. In his New York Times essay, he also described Betty Friedan’s 1963 The Feminine Mystiqueas the book that taught millions of American women to regard housework, cooking included, as drudgery, indeed…
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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: Maggie Savoy
On day eight of Women’s History Month, I thought I would look over to the West Coast and feature Maggie Savoy who was the women’s page editor at the Arizona Republic and the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s. Maggie was an outspoken feminist who did not live long enough to witness the victories of the Women’s Liberation Movement. In a 1970 article Savoy wrote for the American Society of Newspaper Editors, she took editors to task for not fully explaining the issues central to the women’s movement. She wrote: “Blunt fact: American women are second class citizens. They want a fair shot at the starting line. Like other minority…
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Death of Dear Abby columnist
“Dear Abby” – Abigail Van Buren — the pen name of Pauline Friedman Phillips – died yesterday. Her national syndicated advice column was common in the women’s pages of newspapers for decades. In one column, she wrote about one of my favorite women’s page editors Maggie Savoy. Here is a link to the column. I am pleased to see how much attention has been paid to Van Buren’s death as often soft news does not get much respect.
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas from Curtis James, Paul Jacob, Lance & I! Curtis is named for Curtis Castleberry, the husband of legendary Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry and James Bellows, husband of groundbreaking women’s page editor Maggie Savoy. Paul is named for Paul Myhre – a champion for women’s page journalism as the director of the Penney-Missouri Awards.
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Anniversary of Maggie Savoy’s Death
It was on this date in 1970 that women’s page editor Maggie Savoy died of cancer at age 50. Here is her final column. She was a groundbreaking women’s page editor in Arizona & California. She was an outspoken feminist and the wife of legendary editor Jim Bellows. Here is a link to my article about Maggie Savoy. I have always felt a special connection to Maggie as she died a few days before I was born. I am lucky to enjoy the rights that she fought for.
