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Out on assignment : newspaper women and the making of modern public space / Alice Fahs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fahs, Alice.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women journalists--United States--Biography.
- Women journalists.
- Women in journalism--United States--History--20th century.
- Women in journalism.
- Women and journalism--United States--History--20th century.
- Women and journalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (373 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Out on Assignment illuminates the lives and writings of a lost world of women who wrote for major metropolitan newspapers at the start of the twentieth century. Using extraordinary archival research, Alice Fahs unearths a richly networked community of female journalists drawn by the hundreds to major cities--especially New York--from all parts of the United States. Newspaper women were part of a wave of women seeking new, independent, urban lives, but they struggled to obtain the newspaper work of their dreams. Although some female journalists embraced more adventurous reportin
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Among the newspaper women
- The woman's page
- Human interest
- Bachelor girls
- Adventure
- Work
- Travel
- Epilogue: toward suffrage.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908770-8-6
- 1-4696-0256-3
- 0-8078-6903-1
- OCLC:
- 767952991
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