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Autore |
Fahs Alice |
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Titolo |
Out on assignment [[electronic resource] ] : newspaper women and the making of modern public space / / Alice Fahs |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-0256-3 |
0-8078-6903-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (373 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women journalists - United States |
Women in journalism - United States - History - 20th century |
Women and journalism - United States - History - 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Among the newspaper women -- The woman's page -- Human interest -- Bachelor girls -- Adventure -- Work -- Travel -- Epilogue: toward suffrage. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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