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Our Mad Men Book: Teen Vogue’s List of Feminist Books
I was thrilled to see that our Mad Men book was included on Teen Vogue’s list of top feminist books.
- Florida food, Florida history, Florida Women's Pages, Jane Nickerson, Jeanne Voltz, Virginia Heffington
Miami: A Food Biography
I am excited to announce that I just signed a book contract for a book about Miami food. It means an opportunity to study some of my favorite Florida food editors – Jane Nickerson, Jeanne Voltz & Virginia Heffington. The book proposal was based on the lectures I gave at Rollins College this past summer. It will be my Spring-Summer 2016 project with a few trips to Miami along the way.
- Aileen Ryan, Barbara Cloud, Eleni Epstein, Eugenia Sheppard, fashion history, fashion journalism, Judy Lunn, soft news
Media Report To Women: Newspaper Fashion History
I was excited to see that the new issue of the Media Report To Women is out. It includes my article about the history of newspaper fashion sections in the 1950s and 1960s. It focuses on fashion reporter Eugenia Sheppard and also includes a list of fashion reporters to be studied in the future. It builds on my work on Aileen Ryan and Eleni Epstein.
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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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Going over the Catherine East Oral History
I spent this morning going through Catherine East’s oral history. It is available in her papers in the Schlesinger Library. East’s work with women’s page editors Vera Glaser and Dorothy Jurney are part of my upcoming book about women and politics.
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New Dorothy Jurney letter
I am back to working on my women and politics book that focuses on several women’s page editors, including Marjorie Paxson, Marie Anderson, Vera Glaser and Dorothy Jurney. In my research, I came across a great letter to women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney from food editor Eudora Garrison. It can be found in Jurney’s papers in the National Women & Media Collection. Dorothy was the women’s page editor at the Miami Herald in the 1950s when she was asked to go to the Charlotte Observer for a few weeks to help improve the women’s pages at that newspaper. Eudora was the food editor at the time. Eudora wrote to Dorothy…
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
