Results for "Kroeger, Brooke"

An essential history of women in American journalism, showcasing exceptional careers from 1840 to the presentUndaunted is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism’s most valued work. From Margaret Fuller’s improbable success to ... Read More about Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism

The first and only comprehensive collection of writings by Elizabeth Garver Jordan, the groundbreaking journalist, suffragist, and editor whose fearless reporting on women preceded the #MeToo movement and popularized the true-crime genreA Penguin ClassicThe Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings i... Read More about The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings: Tales of a Newspaper Woman

Brooke Kroeger is Professor at the New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Her books include Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist and Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst.... Read More about Suffragents Tpb: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote (Excelsior Editions)

Despite the many social changes of the last half-century, many Americans still "pass": black for white, gay for straight, and now in many new ways as well. We tend to think of passing in negative terms--as deceitful, cowardly, a betrayal of one's self. But this compassionate book reveals that many p... Read More about Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are

Finalist for the 2018 Sally and Morris Lasky Prize presented by the Center for Political History at Lebanon Valley College The Suffragents is the untold story of how some of New York's most powerful men formed the Men's League for Woman Suffrage, which grew between 1909 and 1917 from 150 founding m... Read More about The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote

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 pub... Read More about Front Pages, Front Lines: Media and the Fight for Women's Suffrage (The History of Media and Communication)