Front Pages, Front Lines

Media and the Fight for Women's Suffrage

Linda Steiner, Carolyn Kitch, Brooke Kroeger (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

266 Seiten

2020
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04310-9 (ISBN)

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Suffragists recognized that the media played an essential role in the women's suffrage movement and the public's understanding of it. From parades to going to jail for voting, activists played to the mass media of their day. They also created an energetic niche media of suffragist journalism and publications. This collection offers new research on media issues related to the women's suffrage movement. Contributors incorporate media theory, historiography, and innovative approaches to social movements while discussing the vexed relationship between the media and debates over suffrage. Aiming to correct past oversights, the essays explore overlooked topics such as coverage by African American and Mormon-oriented media, media portrayals of black women in the movement, suffragist rhetorical strategies, elites within the movement, suffrage as part of broader campaigns for social transformation, and the influence views of white masculinity had on press coverage.

Contributors: Maurine H. Beasley, Sherilyn Cox Bennion, Jinx C. Broussard, Teri Finneman, Kathy Roberts Forde, Linda M. Grasso, Carolyn Kitch, Brooke Kroeger, Linda J. Lumsden, Jane Marcellus, Jane Rhodes, Linda Steiner, and Robin Sundaramoorthy

Linda Steiner is a professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and a coauthor of Women and Journalism. Carolyn Kitch is a professor of journalism and media & communication at Temple University and the author of Pennsylvania in Public Memory: Reclaiming the Industrial Past. Brooke Kroeger is a professor of journalism at New York University and the author of The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote.

Back coverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Historiography: Women’s Suffrage and the Media2. Nineteenth-Century Suffrage Journals: Inventing and Defending New Women3. The Woman’s Exponent: A Utah Case Study in the Campaign for Women’s Suffrage4. Writing and “Righting”: African American Women Seek the Vote5. Woman Suffrage and the New Negro in the Black Public Sphere6. Differently Radical: Suffrage Issues and Feminist Ideas in The Crisis and The Masses7. A Countermovement on the Verge of Defeat: Antisuffragist Arguments in 1917 Press Coverage8. Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Nashville Press:“A White Man’s Country and a White Man9. The Facilitators: Elites in the Victory of the Women’s Suffrage Movement10. After Suffrage: An Uncharted Path11. Memory, Interrupted: A Century of Remembering and Forgetting the Story of Women’s SuffrageAfterword: Women’s Suffrage, the Press, and the Enduring Problem of White SupremacyAbout the ContributorsIndexBack cover

Erscheinungsdatum	11.03.2020
Reihe/Serie	The History of Media and Communication
Co-Autor	Maurine H. Beasley, Sherilyn Cox Bennion
Zusatzinfo	13 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-252-04310-3 / 0252043103
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04310-9 / 9780252043109
Zustand	Neuware