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The Woman Citizen: A Study of How News Narratives Adapt to a Changing Social Environment
Sheila M. Webb. "The Woman Citizen: A Study of How News Narratives Adapt to a Changing Social Environment." American Journalism, Vol. 29, Issue 2, Spring 2012. (pp. 9-36).
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Academic Paper, Newspapers
In this article for the journal American Journalism, scholar Sheila M. Webb provides an in-depth look at The Woman Citizen, a suffragist periodical originally founded by Carrie Chapman Catt, then the president […] Read More
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19th Century Suffrage Periodicals: Conceptions of Womanhood and the Press
Linda Steiner. 19th Century Suffrage Periodicals: Conceptions of Womanhood and the Press (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press), 1993. (pp. 66-97).
Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Book Chapter, Book-Academic, Book-Non-Fiction, Magazines, Newspapers
In the fourth chapter of the book Ruthless Criticism: New Perspectives in U.S. Communication History, journalism scholar Linda Steiner delves into the history of 19th century women-run suffrage periodicals and how they […] Read More
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Women’s Periodicals in the United States: Social and Political Issues
Eds. Kathleen L. Endres and Therese L. Lueck. Women's Periodicals in the United States: Social and Political Issues. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996.
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Academic, Book-Non-Fiction, Magazines, Newspapers
Women’s Periodicals in the United States: Social and Political Issues is a collection of alphabetical entries written by different scholars on various women’s publications that existed in the 19th and 20th centuries. […] Read More
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“The History and Structure of Women’s Alternative Media,” in Making Meaning: New Feminist Directions in Communication
Linda Steiner. Making Meaning: New Feminist Directions in Communication. New York: Routledge, 1992. (pp. 121-143).
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Book Chapter, Book-Academic
In the seventh chapter of Making Meaning: New Feminist Directions in Communication (edited by Lana F. Rakow), Linda Steiner reviews the history of women’s media, conveying, “primarily through examples, a sense […] Read More
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Finding Community in Nineteenth Century Suffrage Periodicals
"Finding Community in Nineteenth Century Suffrage Periodicals." Linda Steiner. American Journalism, Summer 1983, pp. 1-16.
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Academic Paper
This study by Professor Linda Steiner of the University of Maryland extends William Goode’s discussion of professions as communities to provide an analysis of the importance of periodicals in sustaining […] Read More