Front pages, front lines : media and the fight for women's suffrage /
edited by Linda Steiner, Carolyn Kitch, and Brooke Kroeger.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (viii, 254 pages) : illustrations.
- The history of communication .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Historiography: women's suffrage and the media / Nineteenth-century suffrage journals: inventing and defending new women / The Woman's Exponent: a Utah case study in the campaign for women's suffrage / Writing and "righting": African American women seek the vote / Woman suffrage and the new negro in the black public sphere / Differently radical: suffrage issues and feminist ideas in The Crisis and The Masses / A countermovement on the verge of defeat: antisuffragist arguments in 1917 press coverage / Discourses of race and masculinity in the Nashville Press: "A white man's country and the white man's government"? / The facilitators: elites in the victory of the women's suffrage movement / After suffrage: an uncharted path / Memory, interrupted: a century of remembering and forgetting the story of women's suffrage / Afterword: women's suffrage, the press, and the enduring problem of white supremacy / Linda J. Lumsden -- Linda Steiner -- Sherilyn Cox Bennion -- Robin Mazyck Sundaramoorthy and Jinx Coleman Broussard -- Jane Rhodes -- Linda M. Grasso -- Teri Finneman -- Jane Marcellus -- Brooke Kroeger -- Maurine Beasley -- Carolyn Kitch -- Kathy Roberts Forde.
"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. 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 are 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"--