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Front Pages, Front Lines

Media and the Fight for Women's Suffrage

Edited by Linda Steiner, Carolyn Kitch and Brooke Kroeger

Contributions by Maurine H. Beasley, Sherilyn Cox Bennion, Jinx C Broussard, Teri Finneman, Kathy Roberts Forde, Linda M. Grasso, Carolyn Kitch, Brooke Kroeger, Linda J Lumsden, Jane Marcellus, Jane Rhodes, Linda Steiner and Robin Sundaramoorthy

Published by: University of Illinois Press

Imprint: University of Illinois Press

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9780252051982
Published: March 2020

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Suffragists recognized that the media played an essential role in the women's suffrage movement and the public's understanding of it. From parades to going to jail for voting, activists played to the mass media of their day. They also created an energetic niche media of suffragist journalism and publications.

This collection offers new research on media issues related to the women's suffrage movement. Contributors incorporate media theory, historiography, and innovative approaches to social movements while discussing the vexed relationship between the media and debates over suffrage. Aiming to correct past oversights, the essays explore overlooked topics such as coverage by African American and Mormon-oriented media, media portrayals of black women in the movement, suffragist rhetorical strategies, elites within the movement, suffrage as part of broader campaigns for social transformation, and the influence views of white masculinity had on press coverage.

Contributors: Maurine H. Beasley, Sherilyn Cox Bennion, Jinx C. Broussard, Teri Finneman, Kathy Roberts Forde, Linda M. Grasso, Carolyn Kitch, Brooke Kroeger, Linda J. Lumsden, Jane Marcellus, Jane Rhodes, Linda Steiner, and Robin Sundaramoorthy

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Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Historiography: Women’s Suffrage and the Media

2. Nineteenth-Century Suffrage Journals: Inventing and Defending New Women

3. The Woman’s Exponent: A Utah Case Study in the Campaign for Women’s Suffrage

4. Writing and “Righting”: African American Women Seek the Vote

5. Woman Suffrage and the New Negro in the Black Public Sphere

6. Differently Radical: Suffrage Issues and Feminist Ideas in The Crisis and The Masses

7. A Countermovement on the Verge of Defeat: Antisuffragist Arguments in 1917 Press Coverage

8. Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Nashville Press:“A White Man’s Country and a White Man

9. The Facilitators: Elites in the Victory of the Women’s Suffrage Movement

10. After Suffrage: An Uncharted Path

11. Memory, Interrupted: A Century of Remembering and Forgetting the Story of Women’s Suffrage

Afterword: Women’s Suffrage, the Press, and the Enduring Problem of White Supremacy

About the Contributors

Index

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Linda Steiner is a professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and a coauthor of Women and Journalism. Carolyn Kitch is a professor of journalism and media & communication at Temple University and the author of Pennsylvania in Public Memory: Reclaiming the Industrial Past. Brooke Kroeger is a professor of journalism at New York University and the author of The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote.

"Drawing from a constellation of contemporary theory from multiple disciplines, including social movement theory, intersectionality, and status politics, Front Pages, Front Lines brings together new perspectives on suffrage and offers compelling suggestions for further research into media and social change." --Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

"The greatest strength of this collection is the diversity that it represents . . . worth a slot on the bookshelf of any supporter of women's rights who realize the fight still rages on." --American Journalism

"Steiner, Kitch, and Kroeger have put together an important and fascinating anthology, the first book to explore, in depth, the complex relationship between the US women's suffrage movement and the media that both supported and resisted it. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice