Author: Vernetta Trenbeth BartlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Women's Publications in America
Author: Vernetta Trenbeth BartlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
American Women's Magazines
Author: Nancy K. HumphreysPublisher: Scholarly Title
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Shaping Our Mothers' World
Author: Nancy A. WalkerPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034268
Category : Women's periodicals, American
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
A History of Popular Women's Magazines in the United States, 1792-1995
Author: Mary Ellen ZuckermanPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Throughout their history, women's mass circulation journals have played a major role in the lives of millions of American women. Yet the women's magazines of the early 20th century were quite different from those perused by women today. This book looks at changes that occurred in these journals and offers insight into these changes. Business forces formed a key shaping mechanism, tempered by individual editors, readers, advertisers, technology, and cultural and social forces. Founded in the second half of the 19th century, six titles became the largest circulators—Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, McCall's, Pictorial Review, Woman's Home Companion, and Delineator. Capturing the interest of readers and advertisers, these journals published reliable service departments, fiction, and investigative reporting; however, competition eventually bred editorial caution. This, coupled with the depression of the 1930s, led to a narrowing of content and the beginning of Betty Friedan's feminine mystique. After World War II, the journals faced competition from television. The women's liberation movement and women's entry into the work force also brought changes.
Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race and the Politics of Memory
Author: Julie Des JardinsPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807861529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In Women and the Historical Enterprise in America, Julie Des Jardins explores American women's participation in the practice of history from the late nineteenth century through the end of World War II, a period in which history became professionalized as an increasingly masculine field of scientific inquiry. Des Jardins shows how women nevertheless transformed the profession during these years in their roles as writers, preservationists, educators, archivists, government workers, and social activists. Des Jardins explores the work of a wide variety of women historians, both professional and amateur, popular and scholarly, conservative and radical, white and nonwhite. Although their ability to earn professional credentials and gain research access to official documents was limited by their gender (and often by their race), these historians addressed important new questions and represented social groups traditionally omitted from the historical record, such as workers, African Americans, Native Americans, and religious minorities. Assessing the historical contributions of Mary Beard, Zora Neale Hurston, Angie Debo, Mari Sandoz, Lucy Salmon, Mary McLeod Bethune, Dorothy Porter, Nellie Neilson, and many others, Des Jardins argues that women working within the broadest confines of the historical enterprise collectively brought the new perspectives of social and cultural history to the study of a multifaceted American past. In the process, they not only developed the field of women's history but also influenced the creation of our national memory in the twentieth century.
Godey's Lady's Book
Author: Taking Liberties
Author: Amy B. AronsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313076235
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Unlike its British forebears, the early American magazine, or periodical miscellany, functioned in culture as a forum driven by manifold contributions and perpetuated by reader response. Arising in colonial Philadelphia, America's more democratic magazine sustained a range of conflicting ideas, norms, and beliefs—indeed, it promoted their very exchange. It invited and embraced competing voices, particularly during the first 75 years of the Republic. In this first-ever account of the early American magazine as a distinct form, Amy Beth Aronson reveals how such participatory dynamics and public visibility offered special advantages to women, especially to those with sufficient education, access, and financial means, for whom ladies magazines offered unusual opportunities for self-expression, collective discussion, and cultural response. Moreover, the genre opened and sustained dialogue among contributors, whose competing voices played off each other, provoking rebuttal and revision by subsequent contributors and noncontributing readers. This free play of discourse positioned women's words in a uniquely productive way, offering a kind of community of women readers who, together, wrote and revised magazine content and collectively negotiated and authorized new language for a new public's use.
Women's Periodicals in the United States
Author: Kathleen L. EndresPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Profiles discuss the history of seventy-five women's consumer magazines published in the United States.
Rosie and Mrs. America
Author: Catherine GourleyPublisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 0822568047
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Examines how popular culture during the Great Depression and later during the Second World War influenced the lives of women.
Women and American Politics
Author: Susan J. CarrollPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191522090
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Women and American Politics brings together leading scholars in the field of women and politics to provide an account of recent developments and the challenges that the future brings for the study of gender and American Politics. The book examines women's participation in the electoral arena and the emerging scholarship on the relationship between the media and women in politics, the participation of women of colour, and women's activism outside the electoral arena. This volume demonstrates both the wealth of knowledge about women and American politics by the current generation of scholars and the vast number and range of important research questions, which pose a challenge for the next generation.