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  • Re-Evaluating Women's Page Journalism in the Post-World War II Era

    Celebrating Soft News

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Re-Evaluating Women’s Page Journalism in the Post-World War II Era tells the stories of significant women’s page journalists who contributed to the women’s liberation movement and the journalism community. Previous versions of journalism history had reduced the role these women played at their newspapers and in their communities—if they were mentioned at all. For decades, the only place for women ... Read more

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  • The Food Section

    Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Food and Gastronomy
    Food blogs are everywhere today but for generations, information and opinions about food were found in the food sections of newspapers in communities large and small. Until the early 1970s, these sections were housed in the women’s pages of newspapers—where women could hold an authoritative voice. The food editors—often a mix of trained journalist and home economist—reported on everything from ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Newspaper Fashion Editors in the 1950s and 60s

    Women Writers of the Runway

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book documents the careers of newspaper fashion editors and details what the fashion sections included in the post-World War II years. The analysis covers social, political and economic aspects of fashion. It also addresses journalism ethics, fashion show reporting and the decline in fashion journalism editor positions. ... Read more

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  • Vivian Castleberry

    Challenging the Traditions of Women’s Roles, Newspaper Content, and Community Politics

    Series series Women in American Political History
    Considered by some as the most important woman in Dallas in the latter half of the 20th century, Vivian Castleberry was a force for women, nationally and internationally. In shining a light on her career, more becomes known about her fights and her victories. Through this book, historians can better understand that the relationship of the women’s pages to the women’s movement between the 1950s and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Women Politicking Politely

    Advancing Feminism in the 1960s and 1970s

    Series series Women in American Political History
    This book includes the relatively unknown stories of six important women who laid the foundation for improving women’s equality in the U.S. While they largely worked behind the scenes, they made a significant impact. In the group are two female political operatives who worked behind the scenes along with four female journalists who also occasionally worked within government to advance women’s ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Pressing Matters

    A Chronicle of American Media

    Series Book 23 - Mediating American History
    Given the highly globalized and converged sets of communication technologies in the contemporary media landscape, information consumers—all of us—can begin to understand the complexity of interpreting daily news. Providing an overview of American media, press, and journalism, and the events, institutions, and people related to its development, this book helps readers develop perspective on ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • Mad Men and Working Women

    Feminist Perspectives on Historical Power, Resistance, and Otherness

    This book was featured as one of thirty-four Epic Feminist Books in Teen Vogue magazine.This book offers interpretive and contextual tools to read the AMC television series Mad Men, providing a much-needed historical explanation and exposition regarding the status of women in an era that has been painted as pre- or non-feminist. In chapters aimed at helping readers understand women’s lives in the ... Read more

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  • Feminists, Feminisms, and Advertising

    Some Restrictions Apply

    Women and advertising are both globally ubiquitous. Yet advertising remains one of the most unabashedly misogynist, heterosexist, and racist industries. This edited volume of original unpublished chapters is the first ever to offer explicitly feminist views on advertising. Feminists, Feminisms, and Advertising provides feminist analyses of the historical relationships between the advertising ... Read more

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  • The Chicago Food Encyclopedia

    Series series Heartland Foodways
    The Chicago Food Encyclopedia is a far-ranging portrait of an American culinary paradise. Hundreds of entries deliver all of the visionary restauranteurs, Michelin superstars, beloved haunts, and food companies of today and yesterday. More than 100 sumptuous images include thirty full-color photographs that transport readers to dining rooms and food stands across the city. Throughout, a roster of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • American Rule

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