02680nam 2200625Ia 450 991046126030332120200520144314.01-4696-0256-30-8078-6903-1(CKB)2670000000131343(EBL)819535(OCoLC)767952991(SSID)ssj0000551843(PQKBManifestationID)11337079(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000551843(PQKBWorkID)10538984(PQKB)11441751(StDuBDS)EDZ0000865241(MiAaPQ)EBC819535(MdBmJHUP)muse23377(Au-PeEL)EBL819535(CaPaEBR)ebr10516136(CaONFJC)MIL929626(EXLCZ)99267000000013134320110613d2011 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOut on assignment[electronic resource] newspaper women and the making of modern public space /Alice FahsChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20111 online resource (373 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4696-2196-7 0-8078-3496-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Among the newspaper women -- The woman's page -- Human interest -- Bachelor girls -- Adventure -- Work -- Travel -- Epilogue: toward suffrage.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 reportinWomen journalistsUnited StatesBiographyWomen in journalismUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWomen and journalismUnited StatesHistory20th centuryElectronic books.Women journalistsWomen in journalismHistoryWomen and journalismHistory070.4082Fahs Alice883002MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461260303321Out on assignment2455100UNINA