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Women of the Washington Press
Maurine H. Beasley
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Description for Women of the Washington Press
Paperback. In "Women of the Washington Press," Maurine Beasley chronicles for the first time the discrimination faced by Washington women journalists from the 1830s to the present day. In the face of blatant prejudice and restrictive societal attitudes, these remarkable journalists found ways to make enormous strides, sometimes by creating their own beats. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CBWJ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
In Women of the Washington Press, Maurine Beasley chronicles for the first time the discrimination faced by Washington women journalists from the 1830s to the present day. In the face of blatant prejudice and restrictive societal attitudes, these remarkable journalists found ways to make enormous strides, sometimes by creating their own beats.
In Women of the Washington Press, Maurine Beasley chronicles for the first time the discrimination faced by Washington women journalists from the 1830s to the present day. In the face of blatant prejudice and restrictive societal attitudes, these remarkable journalists found ways to make enormous strides, sometimes by creating their own beats.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810125711
SKU
V9780810125711
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About Maurine H. Beasley
Maurine H. Beasley is a professor emerita of journalism at the University of Maryland. She is the author, most recently, of Eleanor Roosevelt: Transformative First Lady (2010) and First Ladies and the Press: The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age (Northwestern, 2005). Beasley is a coauthor of Taking Their Place: A Documentary History of Women and Journalism (2002) and a coeditor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia (2000).
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