Out on Assignment Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space |
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| Author:
| Fahs, Alice |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-3496-1 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2011 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $104.00 |
Book Description:
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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. Fahs argues that, as observers and actors in a new drama of independent urban life, newspaper women used the simultaneously liberating and exploitative nature of their work to demonstrate the power of a public voice, both individually and collectively.
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. Fahs argues that, as observers and actors in a new drama of independent urban life, newspaper women used the simultaneously liberating and exploitative nature of their work to demonstrate the power of a public voice, both individually and collectively.