Women of the Washington press
Subtitle: politics, prejudice, persistence
By: Maurine H. Beasley ; foreword by Sandy Johnson
Series: Visions of the American press; Visions of the American press
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780810125711
Subjects: Women journalists; Journalism; History
Description: xvi, 424 pages, [17] pages of plates ; 21 cm
Notes: "Medill School of Journalism."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A new generation; title: Eleanor Roosevelt and the "newspaper girls"; title: World War II shatters precedents-at least for a time; title: Parties, power, and protest in the sixties and early seventies; title: Clothes, cameras, and determination to move into broadcasting; title: A question of equity at the end of the twentieth century; title: Women journalists confront today's media challenges.