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Author Beasley, Maurine H., author.

Title Women of the Washington press : politics, prejudice, and persistence / Maurine H. Beasley ; foreword by Sandy Johnson.

Publication Info. Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 424 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Visions of the American press
Visions of the American press.
Note "Medill School of Journalism."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-396) and index.
Contents A new generation -- Eleanor Roosevelt and the "newspaper girls" -- World War II shatters precedents-at least for a time -- Parties, power, and protest in the sixties and early seventies -- Clothes, cameras, and determination to move into broadcasting -- A question of equity at the end of the twentieth century -- Women journalists confront today's media challenges.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Women journalists -- Washington (D.C.) -- History.
Journalism -- Washington (D.C.)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Johnson, Sandy, writer of foreword.
Other Form: Print version: Beasley, Maurine H. Women of the Washington press : politics, prejudice, and persistence. Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2012 xvi, 424 pages Visions of the American press. 9780810125711 (DLC) 2012005926
ISBN 9780810125711
9780810166141 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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