Between 1933 and 1935, Lorena Hickok traveled across thirty-two states as a "confidential investigator" for Harry Hopkins, head of FDR's Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Her assignment was to gather information about the day-to-day toll the Depression was exacting on individual citizens. One Third of a Nation is her record, underscored by the eloquent photographs of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and others, of the shocking plight of millions of unemployed and dispossessed Americans.

One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression

History

Beasley, Maurine H.

Hickok, Lorena

Lowitt, Richard

Americas

University of Illinois Press

Dustjacket is tattered, torn, rubbed, and has large sticker on back cover.

Eleanor Roosevelt and the Media: A Public Quest for Self-Fulfillment

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

At her first press conference, Eleanor Roosevelt, uncertain of her role as hostess or leader, passed a box of candied grapefruit peel to the thirty-five women journalists. Nearly sixty years later, Hillary Clinton, an accomplished professional woman and lawyer, tried to mollify her critics by handing out her chocolate-chip cookie recipe. These exchanges tells us as much about the social—and political—roles of women in America as they do about the relation of the first lady to the press and the public. Looking at the personal interaction between each first lady from Martha Washington to Laura Bush and the mass media of her day, Maurine H. Beasley traces the growth of the institution of the first lady as a part of the American political system. Her work shows how media coverage of first ladies, often limited to stereotypical ideas about women, has not adequately reflected the importance of their role.

First Ladies and the Press: The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age (Medill Visions Of The American Press)

Northwestern University Press

Winner, 2012 Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award
Women of the Washington Press argues that for nearly two centuries women journalists have persisted in their efforts to cover politics in the nation’s capital in spite of blatant prejudice and restrictive societal attitudes. They have been held back by the difficulties of combining two competing roles – those of women and journalists. As a group they have not agreed among themselves on feminist goals, while declaring that they aspire to be seen as professional journalists, not as advocates of a particular ideology. Still, they have brought a different perspective to the news, as they have fought hard to prove that they are capable of covering political issues just like male journalists. Over the years women have networked with each other and carved out areas of expertise – such as reporting of politically-oriented social events and coverage of first ladies – that men disdained, while they pressed to gain entrance to sex-segregated institutions like the National Press Club. Attempting to merge the personal and the political, they have raised issues like sexual harassment that men journalists left untouched. At a point today where they represent about half of accredited correspondents, women still face shifting barriers that make it difficult to combine the roles of both women and journalists in Washington, but they are continuing to broaden the definition of political journalism.

Women of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence (Medill Visions Of The American Press)

This is the book-length version of a report based on a case study of graduates of the University of Maryland College of Journalism, and is known as the 'pink-collar ghetto' report. Topics discussed include: What happens when enrollment in journalism schools changes from predominantly male to predominantly female? What are the implications within both the campus and the workplace?

The New Majority: A Look at What the Preponderance of Women in Journalism Education Means to the Schools and to the Professions

Politics & Social Sciences

Theus, Kathryn T.

Social Sciences

University Press of America

The New Majority

Taking Their Place: A Documentary History of Women and Journalism (The American University Press Journalism History Series)

Beasley, Maurine H., Gibbons, Sheila J., Silver, Sheila

Gibbons, Sheila J.

Silver, Sheila

Women's Studies

Amer Univ Pr

This innovative, highly regarded book tells the story of U.S. women in journalism to the present time—in part, in their own words.

Taking Their Place: A Documentary History of Women and Journalism

Strata Pub Co.

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