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Out on assignment [[electronic resource] ] : newspaper women and the making of modern public space / / Alice Fahs



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Autore: Fahs Alice Visualizza persona
Titolo: Out on assignment [[electronic resource] ] : newspaper women and the making of modern public space / / Alice Fahs Visualizza cluster
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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4696-0256-3
0-8078-6903-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910461260303321
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