Women in American journalism
Subtitle: a new history
By: Jan Whitt.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780252033544; 9780252075568
Subjects: Women journalists -- United States -- Biography; Women in journalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: In this volume, Jan Whitt tells the stories of women who have been overlooked in journalism history, offering an important corrective to scholarship that narrowly focuses on the deeds of men like Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. She shows how numerous women broadened the editorial scope of newspapers and journals, transformed women's professional roles, used journalism as a training ground for major literary works, and led breakthroughs in lesbian and alternative presses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The secret sharers : women outside mainstream journalism; title: Familiar women of American journalism history; title: Women of society news and women's pages; title: Women in contemporary literary journalism; title: Women journalists who chose fiction; title: Representative women of the alternative press; title: Women and the lesbian press.