Re-Evaluating Women's Page Journalism in the Post-World War II Era: Celebrating Soft News [Paperback]

Re-Evaluating Womens Page Journalism in the Post-World War II Era tells the stories of significant womens page journalists who contributed to the womens liberation movement and the journalism community. Previous versions of journalism history had reduced the role these women played at their newspapers and in their communitiesif they were mentioned at all. For decades, the only place for women in newspapers was the womens pages. While often dismissed as fluff by management, these sections in fact documented social changes in communities.

These women were smart, feisty and ahead of their times. They left a great legacy for todays women journalists. This book brings these individual women together and allows for a broader understanding of womens page journalism in the 1950s and 1960s. It details the significant roles they played in the post-World War II years, laying the foundation for a changing role for women.

1. Introducing Post-World War II Womens Pages.- 2. The Growth of the Womens Page Community.- 3. Powerful Partnerships of Womens Page Editors and Club Women.- 4. Recognizing the Soft News of the Womens Pages.- 5. Womens Pages Cover Another F.- 6. Quilted News: Creating a New Definition for News.- 7. The Demise of the Womens Sections.- 8. Womens Page Journalists Across the Country.

Kimberly Wilmot Voss is Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida, USA. She is author of The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community, Politicking Politely: Well-Behaved Women Making a Difference in the 1960s and 1970s and co-author of Mad Men & Working Women: Feminist Perspectives on Historical Power, Resistance and Otherness.