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Out on Assignment

Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space

by Alice Fahs
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Out on Assignment illuminates the lives and writings of a lost world of women who wrote for major metropolitan newspapers at the start of the twentieth century. Using extraordinary archival research, Alice Fahs unearths a richly networked community of female journalists drawn by the hundreds to major cities—especially New York—from all parts of the United States.
Newspaper women were part of a wave of women seeking new, independent, urban lives, but they struggled to obtain the newspaper work of their dreams. Although some female journalists embraced more adventurous reporting, including stunt work and undercover assignments, many were relegated to the women's page. However, these intrepid female journalists made the women's page their own. Fahs reveals how their writings—including celebrity interviews, witty sketches of urban life, celebrations of being "bachelor girls," advice columns, and a campaign in support of suffrage—had far-reaching implications for the creation of new, modern public spaces for American women at the turn of the century. As observers and actors in a new drama of independent urban life, newspaper women used the simultaneously liberating and exploitative nature of their work, Fahs argues, to demonstrate the power of a public voice, both individually and collectively.

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    November 17, 2011

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    • Library Journal

      September 15, 2011

      Although written by an academic for academics, this study of the turn-of-the-20th-century newspaper business and its women practitioners is an accessible cultural history. In seven chapters covering such topics as the personalities of women newspaper writers, the style and impact of papers' popular "women's pages" and human interest stories, and how women writers undertook "stunt" journalism and travel adventures, Fahs (history, Univ. of California, Irvine; The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North & South, 1861-65) combines quotations from the journalists (from the well-known Nellie Bly to the more obscure, e.g., Margherita Hamm) with primary research and scholarly citations. In discussing how these trendsetters wrote about themselves as "bachelor girls" and adventurers, Fahs also explores how they led the way to women's suffrage and modern ideas of feminism. VERDICT Readers with an interest in media history as well as in women's studies will find this to be an enjoyable and character-driven scholarly book, although its academic style may render it a bit dry for the general history reader.--Sarah Statz Cords, The Reader's Advisor Online

      Copyright 2011 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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