Gender, generation, and journalism in France, 1910-1940 / Mary Lynn Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Mary Lynn, 1945- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism.

History.

Women journalists.

France--Paris.

Women journalists--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Journalism--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"In the late nineteenth century, the first wave of female journalists began writing in the French daily press. Yet, while they undeniably opened doors for the next generations of educated women, sexist hiring practices, assumptions about women's aptitudes as reporters, and more subtle gender biases continued to saturate the industry in the decades that followed. Gender, Generation, and Journalism in France, 1910-1940 investigates the careers and written work of ten women who regularly reported in the national, Paris-based dailies between 1910 and 1940. Addressing the role of mentorship, family connections, gendered behaviors, reporting styles, and subject matter, Mary Lynn Stewart debunks lingering essentialist notions about women's entry into journalism, showing that struggling newspapers, attempting to reverse declining circulation, hired women to cover subjects that expanded to include international relations, colonial conflicts, trials, local politics and social problems. Through content analysis, deixis, and systematic comparisons of several women and men reporting on the same or different events, she further queries claims about a feminine style, finding more similarities than differences between masculine and feminine reporting. Documenting the persistence of gender discrimination in the hiring, assigning, and assessment of women reporters in the French daily press, Gender, Generation, and Journalism in France, 1910-1940 demonstrates that, through the support of their female colleagues, women managed to succeed despite a variety of challenges."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Part one. Generations, mentors, and mothers

Pioneers and mentors: Séverine and Durand, 1880s-1909

Mother and daughter 1: Séverine and Capy, 1910-1940

Mother and daughter 2: Colette and Beaumont, 1910-1940

Family business: Andrée, Gustave, and Simone Téry, 1890s-1940

Part two. Gender and front-page reporting

Gender and grand reporting: Andrée Viollis and Albert Londres on Asia, 1930s

Gender, politics, and racism in Colonial reporting, 1930s

Family and diplomatic reporting: Geneviève Tabouis, 1930s

Part three. Gender on other beats

Gender and social reporting: La Mazière, Clar, and Moran, 1922-1939

Women's pages: Rosine, Magda, and Chandet, 1918-1940

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Stewart, Mary Lynn, 1945-, author. Gender, generation, and journalism in France, 1910-1940./

ISBN:

0773553231

9780773553231

OCLC:

1013508530