Marie Anderson
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Politicking Politely Cover Photo
I have sent off my manuscript for my book, Politicking Politely. I am considering this image for the cover – it features Miami Herald women’s page journalists Marie Anderson and Dorothy Jurney.
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Writing about Marie Anderson & Miami Herald
Editing my Politicking Politely book and thinking about the role of Marie Anderson and the women’s pages of the Miami Herald. She truly made a difference for women – in Miami and across the country.
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Writing Women into the Curriculum
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My Upcoming Book: Politicking Politely & Well-Behaved Women
I am finishing up the edits on my upcoming book, Politicking Politely: Well-Behaved Women Making a Difference in the 1960s and 1970s. My book focuses on 6 significant women. It includes the relatively unknown stories of two female political operatives who worked behind the scenes along with four female journalists who also occasionally worked within government to advance women’s rights during the 1950s through the 1970s. Much of it centers on Washington, D.C., as well as the more unlikely cities of Madison, Wisconsin, and Miami, Florida. It includes the story of a women’s page journalist who published an official government report in her newspaper section when the White House refused…
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Writing the Miami Food Book
Excited to be back at work on the Miami food book. It’s great to look at the work of Miami Herald writers Marie Anderson and Marjorie Paxson – who is pictured above.
- Dorothy Jurney, Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, Helen Muir, Marie Anderson, Miami food, Miami Herald
Miami Food & Helen Muir’s Tea Parties
In writing the Miami food book, I am including a section on Helen Muir’s famous tea parties. She was a writer for the women’s section of the Miami News and the Miami Herald and she also was a book editor. Women’s page journalists Marie Anderson and Dorothy Jurney are included in this photo.
- Dorothy Jurney, Marie Anderson, National Women and Media Collection, women and journalism, women and politics
Women & Politics Book Update
My reviews are in for my book manuscript, Politicking Politely, are in. Great news – all three reviewers liked it. I will make revisions this fall and turn it in by December 1. The book will come out in 2017. The book focuses on women’s page editors and women in government in the 1950s and 1960s. Two of the women at the center of the book are above – Marie Anderson and Dorothy Jurney.
