Blue Pencils & Hidden Hands: Women Editing Periodicals, 1830-1910Sharon M. Harris, Ellen Gruber Garvey During the long nineteenth century, American women editors of magazines, then the dominant mass medium for information in the United States, exerted a vital force over a burgeoning community of readers and were crucial in redefining women's identities and roles in the nation's changing social and cultural landscape. This collection of original critical essays builds on a growing body of scholarship to explore the varied editorial practices of women editors from diverse race, class, and ethnic backgrounds. Examining a broad spectrum of periodicals, including school newspapers, children's and fashion magazines, and activist political journals, the contributors delve into three major areas: women apprentices in magazine publishing; women who drew on their editorial experience to create other forms of literary, artistic, and activist expressions; and women who established careers as editors. Enriching the essays are selections from the periodicals themselves, revealing how Ann S. Stephens, Frances Wright, Pauline Hopkins, Kate Field, Zitkala-Sa, and others wielded their editorial pen to shape public opinion about such issues as woman suffrage, abolitionism, and domestic violence. |
Contents
A Formative Experience | 3 |
Excerpt from The Jabberwock | 19 |
Excerpt from The Nashville American | 36 |
Excerpts from Portland Magazine | 58 |
Excerpts from Frank Leslies Chimney Corner | 75 |
Excerpt from the Free Enquirer | 96 |
Excerpt from The Womans Journal | 121 |
Excerpt from The Indian Helper | 144 |
An African American | 146 |
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References to this book
The SAGE Handbook of Rhetorical Studies Andrea A. Lunsford,Kirt H. Wilson,Rosa A. Eberly No preview available - 2009 |