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Twenty-five Years Later, Arizona Knows About Maggie Savoy
I was so excited to get an email from columnist Karina Bland last week. As part of the 125th anniversary of the Arizona Republic, she was writing about late women’s page editor Maggie Savoy. We still lived in St. Louis when I started researching Maggie’s life and work – more than a decade ago. I was familiar with her name – she wrote letters back and forth to Marjorie Paxson, Paul Myhre and Edee Greene. I knew she won several Penney-Missouri Awards and had given several important speeches. Other than her letters (found in the National Women & Media Collection – created by Paxson’s funding), I had a difficult time…
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Florida Food History Talk in Gainesville
Peggy has begun publicity for my upcoming talk in Gainesville. A Facebook event is available here. Florida Food in the Women’s Pages: Restaurants, Home Cooks and Recipe Exchanges in the 1950s and 1960sSaturday, June 27 from 2:30-3:30 p.m. The 1950s and the 1960s have been described as the “Golden Era” for the women’s pages of newspapers. UCF professor Kimberly Wilmot Voss shares the stories of the women who made Florida the capital of food culture. She is the author of The Food Section and the coauthor of Mad Men and Working Women. It is part of the Museum’s Florida Global Kitchen project that takes place from Monday, May 18 through…
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Great Article About Maggie Savoy
I was thrilled to read this wonderful column about Arizona women’s page editor Maggie Savoy. Here is some of what came from my interview with the columnist:“When I got her on the phone, Voss was between semesters at the University of Central Florida-Orlando, where she’s an associate journalism professor, and happy to talk. There’s a saying, “Well-behaved women don’t make history,” but Voss thinks they do. She spent six years piecing together Savoy’s story for a paper she published in 2009 called “Forgotten Feminist.” Savoy didn’t want to alienate readers uncomfortable with feminist issues. So along with ideas for potluck dinners and women’s club activities, she served up stories about…
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““Crusaders, Not Subordinates”: AEJMC Paper About Women Page Activism
Lance and I just learned that our paper “Crusaders, Not Subordinates: How Women’s Page Editors Worked to Change the Gender Climate Within APME and ASNE,” has been accepted for presentation at the 2015 AEJMC conference in San Francisco. The paper builds on the work Lance and I had published last summer in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly and was later included in a virtual themed issue. Poynter posted a blog post about our research. Our AEJMC papers proves that women’s page editors were active in attempts to improve their status in the industry.
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History of Washington State Food Editors
I am going over the page proofs for the upcoming “Recipes & Reporting” for Columbia Magazine. The article is about the food editors from Washington State; all of the editors used pen names which made the research challenging. The article will be published this summer.
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Talking About Florida Food Editors
Excited to announce that I will be speaking about the Florida food editors who are in my book, The Food Section, this summer. In June, I will be speaking each Friday in June at Rollins College in Winter Park as part of the Lifelong Learning program. More information is available here. At the end of June, I will be speaking at the Matheson History Museum in Gainesville as part of the Florida’s Global Kitchen program. Here is the description: Florida Food in the Women’s Pages: Restaurants, Home Cooks and Recipe Exchanges in the 1950s and 1960s Saturday, June 27 at 2:30 p.m. $5 per person The 1950s and the 1960s…
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
