women's history
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My Blog: More than 300,000 page views
Happy moment: More than 300,000 page views on Women’s Page History.
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Writing Women into the Curriculum
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Catherine East & the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women
I found some great information in Catherine East (pictured above) in her oral history. In my research, I learned that East learned about the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women from the women’s pages of newspapers.
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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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Vivian Castleberry Column
The Dallas Morning News featured a great column by longtime Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry. Lance & I are working on a book about Vivian’s life and career.
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Gossip in the Women’s Pages
I just learned that the book When Private Talk Goes Public: Gossip in United States History will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. My chapter in the book is “Gossip in the Women’s Pages: Examining and Legitimizing the Work of Female Journalists in the 1950s and 1960s.” In it, I wrote about Vera Glaser who is pictured above. Her political column appeared in women’s pages across the country.
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Women’s Page Focus
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Food Editors Using Pen Names
A common practice of newspaper food writers was to use pen names, sometimes at the request of management because they wanted to preserve the continuity of the columnist; after all, it was expected the female reporter would leave employment once married. Food writers were not the first women at newspapers to use pen names. As other historians have noted, female news reporters began using pen names in the late 1800s “because for a woman to work as a newspaper reporter was considered unsavory and disreputable.” Some of the most famous female journalists of that time were using pen names. Columnist “Dorothy Dix” was really Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, and Elizabeth Cochrane…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
