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An Ever Developing Art Form
Guest Blog PostUCF student Rebecca Males When my professor Dr. Voss asked me if I would be interested in doing an independent study on fashion photography and the development of color photography, I said heck yeah. I’ve studied photography since I was a 16-year-old sophomore in high school, seven years ago. As it seemed an elusive dream world, fashion photography has always caught my eye. I’m a daydreamer. There, I fully admit to having one of the wildest imaginations. It’s as if my brain runs in a movie sequence, frame by frame. A favorite past time of mine is to go to Barnes and Noble and sit in the photography…
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Women’s Page Editors & Women’s History Month
In honor of Women’s History Month this year, I will be blogging each day about a different women’s page journalist. I will also be pinning to this Women’s Page History board and posting to Facebook. My posts will be short biographies of women who are often left out of journalism histories. Check back on March 1.
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Fiftieth Anniversary of The Feminine Mystique
This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of The Feminine Mystique. The groundbreaking book was often reviewed in the women’s pages of newspapers rather than the book section. Some critics have noted that this was sexist. Yet, author Betty Friedan actually wanted her book reviewed by women’s page journalists. Lance and I learned this when we went through Friedan’s papers at the Schlesinger Library a few years ago.
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CJR Article About The Women’s Pages
I love this article from the Columbia Journalism Review about the women’s pages that was posted today. Here is a portion of it: “They were women talking to women, making issues relevant so that women were encouraged to speak out about them,” says Kimberly Voss, associate professor of journalism at the University of Central Florida. Voss maintains a blog devoted to Women’s Page history, which she describes as a “public history” project, a way to correct the idea that women’s pages were simply fluff. “They were doing good journalism, they were just wearing hats and white gloves because that’s what society required of them,” Voss continues. “It was really quite…
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Happy First Ladies’ Day
Rather than celebrating President’s Day, we are celebrating the First Ladies. The First Ladies were often featured in the women’s pages of newspapers. The above clip features a story about Mrs. Nixon by Miami Herald club editor Roberta Applegate. Here is a link to an interesting post about First Ladies, the State of the Union Address and the women’s pages.
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Great Image of Food Editor Jeanne Voltz
I love this great image of Food Editor Jeanne Voltz. She is getting ready to fly with USN Blue Angels, Miami, 1956. I noticed the image on her daughter Jeanne’s Facebook page and I appreciate her letting me use it. In the 1950s, Jeanne Voltz was the food editor at the Miami Herald before moving on to the Los Angeles Times in 1960. Here is how she is described in her obituary: “She was one of the first newspaper food editors of the modern era, when the sections were edited by journalists rather than by the advertising department.” There has been an over generalization that food journalism was run by…
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