Re-Evaluating Women's Page Journalism in the Post-World War II Era

Re-Evaluating Women-s Page Journalism in the Post-World War II Era tells the stories of significant women-s page journalists who contributed to the women-s liberation movement and the journalism community. Previous versions of journalism history had reduced the role these women played at their newspapers and in their communities-if they were mentioned at all. For decades, the only place for women in newspapers was the women-s 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 today-s women journalists. This book brings these individual women together and allows for a broader understanding of women-s 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.

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.

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