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BOOK, ESSAYS, VIDEO: FRONT PAGES FRONT LINES: MEDIA AND THE FIGHT FOR WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

Edited by Linda Steiner, Carolyn Kitch and Brooke Kroeger, University of Illinois Press, 2020

Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Book Chapter, Book-Academic, Essay, Interview, Scholarly Resarch, Video, Web-based

  Front Pages, Front Lines Media and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage (Read about the book on the Illinois Press site: here. Watch any of the short videos with insights […] Read More

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VIDEO: CAROLYN KITCH ON MEMORY, INTERRUPTED: A CENTURY OF REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING THE STORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

From her chapter in FRONT PAGES FRONT LINES: MEDIA AND THE FIGHT FOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Author Interview, Book Chapter, Book-Academic, Book-Non-Fiction, Essay, Interview, Magazines, Newspapers, Scholarly Resarch, Video, Web-based

  In Chapter 11 of Front Pages Front Lines, Prof. Kitch analyzes how cover stories in Time, Life, and Newsweek, in the context of reporting on the so-called second wave […] Read More

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BOOKS: NEW in 2020 for the SUFFRAGE CENTENNIAL

SUFFRAGE, AND YET THEY PERSISTED, FRONT PAGES FRONT LINES, JAILED FOR FREEDOM, PICTURING POLITICAL POWER, 100 YEARS OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE

Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Non-Fiction

    Here are the publishers’ links to three new books for 2020, timed to the suffrage centennial celebrations and their publishers’ descriptions. Ellen Carol DuBois (Simon & Schuster) SUFFRAGE: […] Read More

AJ 2019 Suffrage Issue

NEW RESEARCH, INTRODUCTION, VIDEO, PODCAST INTERVIEWS: WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE AND THE MEDIA

American Journalism: A Journal of Media History, Spring 2019 Special Suffrage Centennial Issue

Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Academic Journal, Radio/Audio, Scholarly Resarch, Video, Web-based

The following is excerpted from the Introduction to American Journalism‘s special issue  WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE AND THE MEDIA (Spring 2019): Links to the articles in the issue are found here. Taylor […] Read More

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Destructive Women and Little Men: Masculinity, the New Woman, and Power in 1910s Popular Media.

Carolyn Kitch, Journal of Magazine & New Media Research 1, no. 1 (Spring 1999)

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Commentary

During the 1910s, the final decade of the suffrage drive, women’s social, economic, and professional opportunities seemed to broaden dramatically at the same time that political leaders and psychologists decried […] Read More