Title: Front-page women journalists, 1920-1950 /
Authors: Cairns, Kathleen A., 1946-
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Women journalists United States Biography; Women in journalism United States History
Abstract: "Kathleen A. Cairns examines the roles women played in early-twentieth-century newspaper journalism and the influence they had on future generations of newspaperwomen through the examples of Agness Underwood, Charlotta Bass, and Ruth Finney. Each of these front-page women faced her own challenges, whether in regard to class, race, or gender. To get to the newsroom, and to stay there, they had to craft subtle, clever, and exhausting strategies. They had to be tough but compassionate, deferential yet independent, tenacious but also gracious. Most important, they could never openly challenge larger cultural assumptions about gender or suggest that they sought to advance the status of all women as well as themselves.
Contents: Crossing the Threshold: Women in Front-Page Journalism -- Journey from the Star: The Life and Work of Ruth Finney -- The Press As Pulpit: Charlotta Bass and the California Eagle -- Murder Was Her Beat: The Career of Agness Underwood.