women and politics
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Rebels in White Gloves
I am really enjoying this book, Rebels in White Gloves which details the lives of women who were in Hillary’s class at Wellesley College. There are several connections to the book I am writing about well-behaved women in the 1950s and 1960s.
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New Kay Clarenbach image
I just found this new Kay Clarenbach image from 1966. Kay had a great working relationship with the Wisconsin women’s page editors. I went through her papers at the University of Wisconsin a few years ago.
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1972 NYT Article About Feminism
Thanks for the ILL staff at UCF for tracking down this great 1972 article about feminism that I will be using in my upcoming women and politics book. One source mentioned that a woman would never be president.
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Midwest Women & Politics Book Chapter
Happy to contribute a chapter to a book about Midwest Women and Politics – focusing on Kay Clarenbach. She is a significant part of my upcoming book about women and politics in the 1950s and 1960s.
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On Wisconsin Mention of My Book
My upcoming 2017 book about women and politics is mentioned in this article in the University of Wisconsin Alumni Magazine, On Wisconsin. “Media and historians may focus on public protests for women’s rights, but the steady work of state commissions is what allowed women to enter the public sphere, laying the foundation for the women’s liberation movement, says Kimberly Voss, a journalism associate professor at the University of Central Florida. Her book Politicking Politely: Well-Behaved Women Making a Difference in the 1960s and 1970s profiles a half-dozen female journalists and political operatives who worked behind the scenes to push for change. “Without them, a lot of what happens in the…
- 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.
