National Women and Media Collection
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Researching Women’s Page Editor Drue Lytle
Today I got back to writing about Drue Lytle – the women’s page editor of the Honolulu Advertiser. She won numerous Penney-Missouri Awards in the 1960s. Her letters back and forth with Awards’ director Paul Myhre can be found in the Penney-Missouri Awards papers at the NWMC. I also found some great articles about Drue. Clearly, women’s page editors like Drue – with help from Paul – were pushing to change the content of women’s pages. For example, Drue was working to add more medical and health news in her section. I am re-starting an article about Drue although the information gathering has been slow. I hired a researcher several…
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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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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.
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We’re History: Women’s Page Editors & Domestic Violence Awareness
My latest post for We’re History is about the role women’s page journalists played in raising awareness about domestic violence – including Edee Greene.
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Oral History Project: Female Newspaper Food Editors of the 1970s & 1980s
I just received my certificate for completion of the Oral History program at Baylor University. The most common question I get when I am interviewed about The Food Section is will I write a book about the women who came next. I have felt a bit conflicted because most of those women are still alive and can speak for themselves. Instead, I plan to conduct oral histories of women who were food editors in the post-women’s pages years of the 1970s & 1980s. I hope to begin this fall. In addition to my Baylor University class, I am presenting a paper about the oral history project Women in Journalism at…
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Judith Martin: In defense of ‘women’s pages’
I was thrilled to see this great article about the great article about the women’s pages at the Washington Post this weekend: “Judith Martin: In defense of ‘women’s pages.'” I especially enjoyed this segment:“The women’s section reported the feminist revolution of the ’60s and ’70s when other parts of the paper mentioned it rarely and then only as a joke. The Women’s Strike for Peace was ridiculed as being a bunch of housewives who should have stayed home, but we took them seriously long before their actions grew into the wider youth movement protesting the war in Vietnam.” and this:“Certainly not those of us who worked there. We lived with…
