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VIDEO: TERI FINNEMAN ON A COUNTERMOVEMENT ON THE VERGE OF DEFEAT: ANTISUFFRAGIST ARGUMENTS IN 1917 PRESS COVERAGE
From her chapter in FRONT PAGES FRONT LINES: MEDIA AND THE FIGHT FOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE
Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Author Interview, Book Chapter, Book-Academic, Book-Non-Fiction, Essay, Interview, Magazines, Newspapers, Scholarly Resarch, Video, Web-based
In Chapter 7 of Front Pages Front Lines, Prof. Finneman draws on US news coverage to examine the rhetorical strategies of the anti-suffragists in representing themselves and their adversaries in 1917, when they began to lose significant ground with journalists as the progressive arguments of the suffragists gained more traction with journalists.