Front Pages, Front Lines: Media and the Fight for Women's Suffrage (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780252043109)

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

Author: Linda Steiner
ISBN-10: 0252043103
ISBN-13: 9780252043109
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 03/09/2020
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2021