Dustin Harp

Desperately Seeking Women Readers

U.S. Newspapers and the Construction of a Female Readership

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Produktbeschreibung

Desperately Seeking Women Readers considers explicitly named women's pages in U.S. newspapers to understand how the newspaper industry has constructed women readers. Special pages for women developed in the 1890s but by the 1960s had disappeared. The book investigates the creation and collapse of these pages before considering contemporary case studies to articulate why newspapers during the 1990s recreated sex-specific pages. The author argues that women's sections reinforce women as consumers and men as citizens.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 359g
• ISBN-13: 9780739114902
• ISBN-10: 0739114905
• Artikelnr.: 22774926

Autorenporträt

Dustin Harp is assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Part I: Introduction
Chapter 2 Newspapers, Women, Social Movements, and Money
Part 3 Part II: The History of Women's Pages
Chapter 4 Introducing "Women's News"
Chapter 5 From Women's Pages to Style Pages
Part 6 Part III: Contemporary Women's Pages: Case Studies
Chapter 7 Same Problem, Same Solution
Chapter 8 Conceptualizing and Constructing Contemporary Women
Chapter 9 Contemporary Complaints and Contradictions
Chapter 10 Resistance, Reason, and Real Change
Part 11 Part IV: Conclusions
Chapter 12 What is in a Name? An Argument for Integration Not Segregation