Out on assignment [[electronic resource] ] : newspaper women and the making of modern public space / / Alice Fahs
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (373 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 070.4082 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women journalists - United States |
| Women in journalism - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Women and journalism - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- Among the newspaper women -- The woman's page -- Human interest -- Bachelor girls -- Adventure -- Work -- Travel -- Epilogue: toward suffrage. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Out on assignment |
| ISBN: | 1-4696-0256-3 |
| 0-8078-6903-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910789707503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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