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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787382703321

Autore

Braden Maria <1946->

Titolo

She said what? : interviews with women newspaper columnists / / Maria Braden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2009

©1993

ISBN

0-8131-8731-1

0-8131-4796-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

070/.92/273

Soggetti

Women journalists - United States

Journalism - United States - History

Women - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Cover; Interviews and Columns; Mary McGrory; Erma Bombeck; Jane Bryant Quinn; Georgie Anne Geyer; Ellen Goodman; Jane Brody; Dorothy Gilliam; Judith Martin (Miss Manners); Mona Charen; Joyce Maynard; Merlene Davis; Anna Quindlen; Molly Ivins; Selected Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

No longer relegated to reporting on society happenings or household hints, women columnists have over the past twenty years surged across the boundary separating the ""women's"" or ""lifestyle"" sections and into the formerly male bastions of the editorial, financial, medical, and ""op-ed"" pages. Where men previously controlled the nation's new organizations, were the chief opinion givers, and defined what is newsworthy, many women newspaper columnists are now nationally syndicated and tackle the same subjects as their male counterparts, bringing with them distinctive styles and viewpoints.Th