Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space

by Alice Fahs

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807834963
• ISBN13: 9780807834961
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"