Women Journalists Research Articles

Figurations of the Feminine in the Early French Women's Press, 1758–1848 by Siobhán McIlvanney

Reviewed by: Figurations of the Feminine in the Early French Women's Press, 1758–1848 by Siobhán McIlvanney Kate M. Bonin McIlvanney, Siobhán. Figurations of the Feminine in the Early French Women's Press, 1758–1848. Liverpool UP, 2019. ISBN 978-1-78694-188-6. Pp. 270. The period 1758 to 1848 spans ninety of the most turbulent years in French history. One of this period's important—but under-studied—cultural innovations is the advent of a French women's press: journals published for—and often by—French women. These publications ranged widely in subject and intended readership, often in tune with changing political regimes and the waxing or waning of press censorship laws. McIlvanney's study shows that there were daring (if only briefly in print) demands for women's rights in the early days of the 1789 and the 1848 revolutions. There were also longer periods during which the women's press was primarily occupied with the "unserious" topics of fashion, marriage, and homemaking, as women were consigned to domesticity and excluded from active participation in public life. Notwithstanding the limited scope of this "womanly" subject matter, it is McIlvanney's provocative thesis that "feminist tenets have always been present in the women's press alongside feminine ones" (15). Even during the misogynistic years of the Empire and the Restoration, the French women's press contained what McIlvanney terms "feminist elements" (11), in spite of its valorization of political passivity, domesticity, and consumerism. This is an eyebrow-raising thesis for those of us who grew up secure in the Woolf-inspired belief that one of women writers' chief occupations is to kill the [End Page 226] Angel in the House. However, McIlvanney argues that creating a journal specifically for women readers, with women-authored articles, was in itself an act with political repercussions: endowing women readers, writers (and even some women editors) "with a sense of social engagement which could not be erased" (73). In an era when female literacy was not a given, the fact that women's journals solicited and published correspondence from their readers created an important space for dialogue, encouraging readers to articulate and express their opinions in a public forum. Some of the arguments which McIlvanney marshals in support of this thesis feel a bit strained. For instance: the upper-class reader could find in fashion journals "the intellectual sustenance and supportive sense of sorority to aid her in her journey toward self-realization" (99–100). McIlvanney's best case for a common denominator linking these disparate journals across the decades lies in their shared, vocal desire for improved education for girls and women: from practical training for running a household, to the promotion of classes where girls and women could study subjects such as botany and natural history. As McIlvanney convincingly demonstrates, a clear realization that the available forms of instruction left women under-prepared for adult life—whatever they believed such a life ought to entail—subtends these publications: whether conservative, radical, or frivolous; whether aimed at a patrician, bourgeois, or working-class readership. In short, Figurations of the Feminine is a detailed, solidly useful contribution to women's history as well as cultural studies, spanning the end of the Ancien Regime through the rise of the Second Republic. Highly recommended. Kate M. Bonin Arcadia University (PA) Copyright © 2020 American Association of Teachers of French

Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s–1900s: The Victorian Period ed. by lexis Easley, Clare Gill, and Beth Rodgers

Reviewed by: Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s–1900s: The Victorian Period ed. by lexis Easley, Clare Gill, and Beth Rodgers Marysa Demoor (bio) Alexis Easley, Clare Gill, and Beth Rodgers, eds., Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s–1900s: The Victorian Period (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), pp. xii + 580, $230/£150 cloth. There is a sisterhood in Victorian periodicals studies, with admittedly the odd brother member, that every so often comes together to compare notes and share research results. This active network has produced a series of books collecting almost everything there is to know about women and periodicals, published by Edinburgh University Press under the careful supervision of Jackie Jones and structured along traditional time spans. There are some overlaps, such as the 1890s, a decade dealt with in The Victorian Period and The Modernist Period (edited by Faith Binckes and Carey Snyder, 2019), and the years immediately following the First World War, which are covered in both The Interwar Period (edited by Catherine Clay, Maria DiCenzo, Barbara Green, and Fiona Hackney, 2017) and The Modernist Period. But the series editor and the individual editors of these volumes do not aspire to exhaustiveness; rather their aim is to present an overview and expert approaches to certain aspects of the printed press, individuals in journalism, and periodicals published in a specific era. With an effort of this kind, one anticipates that the usual suspects will contribute and the usual subjects will be addressed, but there is more to [End Page 165] this volume than even a specialist reader in the field might expect: there is surprise, innovation, and more information than the expert reader may be familiar with. This volume consists of six parts, each one preceded by an introduction that explores the themes, dominant issues, and strengths of the chapters. The thirty-five chapters are evenly divided over the six parts, creating a hefty volume of 580 pages. There is no way a reviewer can pay sufficient attention to each of the chapters, so I have opted to present my impressions of a highly personal selection. The six parts of the book deal with aspects of Victorian women's involvement in periodicals, such as visual culture, authorship, readership, and more surprisingly, political debates. The first part, "(Re)Imaging Domestic Life," opens with a chapter by the mother of domestic magazine research, Margaret Beetham. Predictably, Beetham's aims are ambitious—she wants to give a "general historical sweep" of the Victorian domestic magazine—but at the same time she displays her typical modesty when warning against oversimplification and generalization (19). This chapter provides a thorough introduction to the genre and a sharp and insightful focus on some of the main players in its survey of domestic periodicals. The unique Isabella Beeton features as the star of domestic magazines in spite of her very untimely death. Beetham's A Magazine of Her Own? (1996) blazed a trail for the next generation of periodical studies scholars, and nearly every chapter in the volume pays homage to her work. The chapters that follow in the first section and the rest of the volume illustrate the huge leap scholars have made in recent research on women journalists. In the wake of Beetham's book, scholars are clearly unafraid to investigate subjects that previously were not deemed serious enough for publication in top scholarly journals because they were too closely associated with stereotypical women's interests, such as sewing, fashion, or domestic chores. Part one of this volume presents some of that research. Kathryn Ledbetter focuses on print media's depiction of the complex issue of servants and their relationship with the lady of the house. Marianne Van Remoortel presents a transnational take on domestic periodicals, centering on the very female interest in fashion to uncover connections between British and French women shoppers. Other contributions to this section of the volume deal with health, another feminine subject generally subsumed under the "caring" adjective; the construction of Irish women's identity in print media; and a chapter on Welsh women and their printed press. Curiously, no chapter is dedicated to Scottish women. The book could have ended there and achieved the...

"To Be Up and Doing": Kate Markham Power's Crusade Journalism and Case Against Woman Suffrage in the Postbellum South

"To Be Up and Doing":Kate Markham Power's Crusade Journalism and Case Against Woman Suffrage in the Postbellum South Pete Smith In the first editorial of her weekly Kate Power's Review (dated September 1, 1894), journalist and editor Kate Markham Power (18651946) laid out a simple case for having her own periodical: "There is room for the paper in Mississippi," she said. "The women want it …" ("To My Readers" 4). At first glance, then, the Review appeared to be a progressive call-to-arms, an opportunity to speak frankly and honestly about the circumstances and conditions of the southern woman in the late nineteenth century. Specifically, Power's practice of what historian Christopher B. Daly calls "crusade journalism" was an attempt to speak to the needs of the white, underprivileged women of the state—those overburdened with the duties of work and home, orphans, or those citizens too ill or disabled to help themselves. As part of her crusade, Power also used her journalism to tout educational opportunities for working- and middle-class women, as she drew attention to the importance of their work (in fields such as teaching) and the need to offer her assistance in their educational pursuits. Power's "crusade" also included a campaign against woman suffrage, as she saw the movement as a threat to the divine sanctity of southern womanhood—the idea that women like Power were meant to serve as the moral guardians of hearth and home and not to participate in "immoral" and "distasteful" acts, like voting, relegated to the public sphere. Accordingly, she set out to convince her readers that a woman's public participation should be limited to using her social influence to help those in need. [End Page 387] Evidence from her own weekly publication, as well as two different syndicated editorial columns, "Mississippi Matters" and the "Educational Bureau," demonstrates how Power used her professional and social standing to attempt to persuade her readers that woman suffrage was a threat to traditional gender roles and nineteenth-century southern hegemony.1 Power was not the only woman of her socioeconomic background to criticize woman suffrage, of course, but she was the first woman in the state to use journalism to publicly announce an anti-suffrage agenda. Power's campaign against woman suffrage stood in sharp contrast to the views of at least one other Mississippi woman of social standing and public influence: writer and politician Belle Kearney. Kearney, like Power, was a daughter of the Old South who believed in the dominance of the white race, but Kearney insisted that woman suffrage could be a useful tool to help "ensure immediate and durable white supremacy" (Perreault 49n3). Briefly contrasting the opinions of these two women, both in positions of influence and from similar backgrounds, shows the complicated nature of the suffrage issue, especially in relation to the strict ideals of southern womanhood in the postbellum era. In fact, as a review of the relevant literature reveals, Power was part of a small but dynamic generation of women journalists whose professional and personal experiences were shaped by the strict ideological, economic, and social circumstances they faced. Power in Context Academic literature provides some details as to the career paths of nineteenth-century women journalists and editors from the southern [End Page 388] states. Jonathan Daniel Wells documents the careers of numerous women of early nineteenth-century literary periodicals, including Sarah Hillhouse, who ran a four-page weekly, the Monitor, in northeastern Georgia ("A Voice" 168); Mary Chase Barney of Baltimore, who began editing National Magazine, or Ladies' Emporium, in the 1830s (169–71); and Caroline Gilman of Charleston, South Carolina, whose literary magazine Southern Rose earned her a favorable, regional reputation (174–75). The careers highlighted in Wells's research foreshadow the accomplishments of the next generation of journalists and editors, Kate Power included. The women of the early nineteenth century, for instance, used their publications to advance specific political and social positions—the importance of a formal education for women, criticism of elected officials, and freedom of speech and religion, among others (Wells, "A Voice in the Nation"). Even so, the women of Kate Power...

Delineating Gender Issues in the Indian Legislation Framework with Reference to Electronic News Media and Women Journalists

Delineating Gender Issues in the Indian Legislation Framework with Reference to Electronic News Media and Women Journalists

The Expiration of Commitments in Adelaide Procter's “Homeward Bound”

It has been a long time since the poetry of Adelaide Anne Procter, a favorite of Queen Victoria, captured much interest from readers of poetry, whether they be anthology aficionados, scholars, or students. Now considered a minor poet of the period, she was nevertheless a quintessential poet activist of her day, raising money for and working with the Providence Row Night Refuge, editing and contributing to the English Women's Journal alongside the Langham Place Feminists and the Society for the Employment of Women. She published volumes of her own poems, one of which ran to as many as nineteen editions between 1858 and 1881, and her work was featured regularly in Charles Dickens's periodical Household Words. Her legacy stands as a powerful testimony to the way ideas and tastes change over time. Full of angels, Christmases, quietly suffering children, and pious nuns (she converted to Catholicism in 1851), her poetry is often dismissed as sentimental and clichéd. A glance at her forms reveals many straightforward tetrameters with expected alternating, end-stopped rhymes, an easiness that seems to ally form and content. If Adorno had ever taken the time to read her poetry, he probably would have hated it, not just for its Catholic faith and its frequent focus on sin and redemption, but for its attempt “to work at the level of fundamental attitudes,” typical of committed art. Consider these lines from her frequently anthologized “Homeless,” which asks readers to recognize that their society takes better care of animals, criminals, and commodities than of the homeless poor: For each man knows the market valueOf silk or woolen or cotton…But in counting the riches of EnglandI think our Poor are forgotten.

Фемінізм і комунізм: специфіка взаємодії в західноукраїнському медійному дискурсі 1920–1930-х років

The Subject of the Study is the models of interaction and intersection of ideologies in media discourse. In contrast to the homogeneous ideological discourse of the Soviet press, the Western Ukrainian of the interwar period was ideologically diverse, in particular, “leftist” ideas were propagated in magazines. There is a noticeable trend in modern media studies: researchers to some extent ignore the “communist segment” of the Western Ukrainian press of the interwar period, this is due to the relevance of our study. Realizing that the communist movement was not widespread in Western Ukraine during the interwar period, let us consider the press of communist organizations both for the sake of objectivity and the need to explore models of the intersection of communist ideology and feminism and this is the novelty of the research. The aim of the article is to investigate the specifics of the interaction of feminism and communism in the Western Ukrainian media discourse of the 1920s and 1930s on the material of communist magazines. The weekly Nasha Zemlya and Sel-Rob, which represented the communist ideological discourse of Western Ukraine, were selected for analysis. The research methodology is a combination of critical discourse analysis with feminist critique. The Results of the Study. Communist magazines were concerned about how to attract Ukrainian women to the party ranks. The key issues covered in Western Ukrainian communist magazines were: women’s unemployment, low-skilled workers, difficult conditions, and low wages. At the same time, only women journalists paid attention to the gender aspect of such problems, for example, the gender disparity in the remuneration of men and women. The political and ideological orientation of Western Ukrainian communist newspapers toward the Soviet Union and Moscow Bolshevism was obvious. Propaganda materials about the Soviet Union’s success in resolving the “women’s issue” regularly appeared in the newspapers of Western Ukrainian communists. Publications on women’s issues were feminist in terms of authorial Intentions, ideological accents, and interpretation of facts. However, discrimination against women was primarily due to an unjust socio-economic system. Despite feminist intentions in the materials of communist magazines, activists of the Ukrainian Women’s Union were criticized as the main ideological competitors in the struggle for the Ukrainian woman.

Figurations of the Feminine in the Early French Women's Press, 1758-1848 by Siobhán McIlvanney

MLR, .,   Figurations of the Feminine in the Early French Women’s Press, –. By S MI. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. .  pp.£. ISBN ––––. In this volume Siobhán McIlvanney traces the evolution of the early women’s press in France over a period of ninety years from its beginnings in  to the revolution of . She bridges a significant gap in scholarship by synthesizing a rich array of previous work on specific authors, periodicals, and historical contexts in a finely craed comparative study subtended by strong theoretical readings of the ways in which the women’s press, consisting for the most part of women journalists, gave voice to the concerns of their gender. e book examines representations of womanhood, both conventional and radical, in women’s journals, as well as the extratextual realities of women’s lives. e author is especially attentive to the implied readers of these journals, including their contributions in letters and articles. McIlvanney defines the term ‘feminist’ capaciously as that which challenges the pre-eminence of the masculine in culture and society. Aer an Introduction to the volume, a preliminary chapter provides socio-political context, tracing the roles ascribed to women as well as women’s actions to improve their position in what was a period of political volatility. e volume then focuses more specifically on the rise of the women’s press from its elitist origins to a medium with increasingly broader appeal and more diverse readership. Since the period from  to  was one of the most turbulent in French political and intellectual history, this chapter necessarily presents it using broad strokes. However, despite a certain unevenness, the focus on social class, gender, and journalism lends coherence to this historical overview and prepares the ground for subsequent chapters. e author structures the remaining chapters to reflect the multiple feminist strategies used in these journals, highlighting particular characteristics in various kinds of journal, from the first publications targeted at an elite group of wealthy, educated women to reformist journals such as the single issue of Les Étrennes Nationales des Dames (), La Femme Libre (–) associated with Saint-Simonian women, or La Voix des Femmes (), with its calls for cross-class solidarity. e volume unfolds in large part chronologically, reflecting fluctuations in the political and social climate, although it also highlights common projects, such as the interpellation of women readers to enter into dialogue and thus become textual producers, beginning with Le Journal des Dames (–). ere are also common themes, in particular the call for better education for girls and women, although the journals that appealed to working-class readers in the nineteenth century figured education as a means to a woman’s financial independence as well as an important component in her self-worth or when serving as a moral role model. McIlvanney’s analyses reveal that early fashion journals heightened the reader’s consciousness of herself as a consumer contributing to the national economy as well as a ‘sujet en devenir’ (p. ), active in her own self-construction. e author signals that the seemingly conservative turn to marriage and motherhood in the early domestic press included a feminist thrust: within the private sphere, letter writers could  Reviews express their feelings about their personal lives and marriages. As McIlvanney points out, ‘the radicalness of providing women readers with the opportunity to construct their own intimate subjectivities textually for the first time should not be underestimated’ (p. ). Ultimately, the dichotomy of private and public spheres breaks down in the liminal space of these journals, which offered readers a gendered community and raised awareness of women’s civic contributions to French society. B C M R-DF Writing the Landscape: Exposing Nature in French Women’s Fiction –. By C M. Cambridge: Legenda. .  pp. £. ISBN – –––. Recovering the works of women writers from the past and incorporating them into an established field of scholarship happens in stages. It begins with the crucial excavation work that leads to the publication of modern editions of texts, thereby increasing their accessibility. Next comes a period in which synthesizing overviews appear, introducing these new names, their lives and texts to wider audiences. In the final stage scholars...

INVESTIGATING THE CHALLENGES FACED BY WOMEN JOURNALISTS IN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES: A CASE STUDY OF ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN

This study has investigated the challenges to women journalists in Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Previous studies of Basu (2018) and Nusrat (2018) has revealed that women are joining media in large number but their presence is negligible. They are facing the challenges and constraints that obstruct their career growth and professional excellence. What are they facing is the main question that is the fundamental objective of this study. The study investigated the major challenges of discrimination, harassment, personal constraint and work family life balance. A sample of 231 women journalists registered in five main press clubs of Pakistan was taken for survey and 20 selected women were interviewed. Stratified random sampling was used for survey while purposive sampling was employed for interviews. Convergent parallel mixed method was adopted. SPSS was used for analyzing data gathered through survey questionnaire and NVIVO was used for interviews. The findings revealed that discrimination and work family balance are the biggest challenge while personal constraint and harassment also put substantial impact on professional excellence and career.

The proportion of male and female editors in women's health journals: A critical analysis and review of the sex gap.

BackgroundHistorically, women have been underrepresented in leadership positions in medicine. The reasons for this are multifactorial. In recent years, women’s representation in medicine has improved. However, inequities in the proportion of men and women in medical leadership remain, especially with regard to editorial journal boards.ObjectiveThis study aimed to explore current trends of women in leadership positions on journal editorial boards.MethodsA comprehensive search for women’s health journals was performed in collaboration with university librarians in February 2019 using EMBASE, Scopus, SciFinder, and MEDLINE records for journals with relevance to women’s health. Each journal was e-mailed to verify the accuracy of the journal editorial boards listed on their respective webpages. Five categories, as well as the totals for each journal, were analyzed for the proportion of women versus men: editor-in-chief, associate editor, deputy editor, and section editor, and other.ResultsWomen comprised the minority of positions on women’s health editorial boards. Of the total 1440 board members included, 602 members (42%) were women and 838 members (58%) were men. Women occupied 54 of 132 editor-in-chief positions (41%), 257 of 596 associate editor positions (43%), 13 of 42 deputy editor positions (30%), 46 of 120 section editor positions (38%), and 232 of 549 other editor positions (42%).ConclusionAlthough the sex gap in leadership in medicine is improving, it is still present. Our findings suggest that women are underrepresented as editors at most levels in women’s health journals centered on topics such as reproductive health, obstetrics and gynecology, perinatology, gynecological oncology, and breastfeeding. With sponsorship/mentorship for women, flexible scheduling, and considerate thought in leadership appointment, this sex gap will continue to improve.

Challenges faced by women in journalism: An analytical case study of situation in Pakistan

In the current mass communication era, journalists have gained wide and popular recognition as feeders for fast-changing global happenings. The present paper drawing upon a recent larger study conducted to explore women journalists’ experiences at the workplace, both within the office and at public spaces where they are deputed on assignments, and its impact on their family lives, narrates the stories in women’s own voices. To explore the relationship between both, a survey method was adopted and, for this purpose 200 women journalists were selected. Findings confirm that, in addition to visible and invisible challenges that are globally associated with this profession, women journalists in Pakistan confront gender specific challenges. More surprising than the presence of these challenges is women journalists’ reluctance to openly acknowledge their harassment.

A mulher no telejornalismo esportivo: ponderações sobre o programa Globo Esporte São Paulo

O artigo tem como objetivo pesquisar a participação da mulher no telejornalismo esportivo, com foco no programa Globo Esporte São Paulo. Vamos analisar a relevância das matérias realizadas por jornalistas mulheres e verificar os valores notícia e critérios de noticiabilidade presentes em cada reportagem, fazendo um parâmetro comparativo com o que é apresentado por jornalistas homens, tendo como método a Análise de Conteúdo. Pretendemos retomar a história da mulher no telejornalismo e fazer uma análise histórica da mulher na sociedade. A questão de gênero também será abordada, assim como um breve histórico telejornalístico.

A mulher no jornalismo brasileiro: o mundo do trabalho delas no mais antigo e no mais vendido jornal do país

The present article analyzes the contexts of the increase of the female population in journalism from the perceptions of women and men journalists who work in the oldest brazilian newspaper, Diario de Pernambuco, and the newspaper with the largest circulation in the country (IVC, 2018), Super Noticia, from Minas Gerais. From the 1970s, women increasingly work in newsrooms of brazilian newspapers. Asking the question “To what extent does their greater presence change the daily routines of newsrooms?”, we question whether or not these women are breaking with the male culture in journalism. For this, we analyzed individual interviews directed to journalists of both genders of the two newspapers. Keywords: Women in journalism. Women brazilian journalists. Work’s world.

“You either stop reacting or you don’t survive. There’s no other way”: the work experiences of Polish women sports journalists

ABSTRACT In recent decades, considerable analysis has been devoted to the experiences of professional women journalists. Though the percentage of women in the media industry is increasing, women sports journalists appear to face an especially complex and difficult situation. This study aimed to explore the professional experiences of Polish women sports journalists. Eighteen semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted; the results revealed that sports journalists face gender prejudice and must adapt to an androcentric culture in sports newsrooms. However, the greatest obstacle they face is combining professional practice with maternal plans. The minority position of female sports journalists in the profession may be responsible for the respondents’ reluctance to admit that their disadvantageous job situation is the result of gender norms in sports and the media.

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Women and Media: An Analysis of Role of Women Journalist in Indian Media

This research is conducted on five different Hindi news channels and five different Newspapers. The purpose of this research was to know the representation of women journalist in print and television media in the form of byline, anchor, reporter, voice-over artist and Piece to Camera. News being covered by women journalist is also being analyzed on source based also. Content analysis method is used to conduct this study. Journalists were also categorized on the basis of covering hard news and soft news also.

Leading the second wave into the third wave: U.S. women journalists and discursive continuity of feminism

ABSTRACT The #MeToo movement resurfaced tensions between second- and third-wave feminists, who are often framed in media narratives using a paradigm approach that defines them as separate, competing social movements. Using a historical analysis, this study builds upon evidence supporting a continuity approach to social movement scholarship that instead emphasizes ideological connections and spillover effects. An examination of the archives of Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS) members in the 1980s and 1990s illustrates that second-wave feminists played a discursive role in helping shape the priorities of the third wave, creating a continuum of the movement to help ensure its future. This study argues that embracing this theoretical perspective and approach to media framing better serves the feminist social movement by providing a more historically accurate portrayal of the transition between waves and by creating a structure of collaboration rather than competition.

Women Journalists’ Careers in Spain: the Case of War Correspondents

Abstract Gender inequalities persist in the journalism profession in Spain, even though some have celebrated that it has become a feminized job. In fact, the journalistic profession in Spain has a severe gender divide: many women leave the profession; there are few women in the highest echelons of news organizations; there is an under-studied wage gap; and newsrooms continue to be gender-blind. This article explores these issues through the case of war reporting. War reporting has traditionally been considered a “man’s job,” but there are around forty women working for the Spanish media covering violence and armed conflicts. Based on in-depth interviews with women war correspondents and using the concept of typical career types, this article analyses the barriers that female reporters have to face and reflects on how gendered these barriers are.

“I Always Watched Eyewitness News Just to See Your Beautiful Smile”: Ethical Implications of U.S. Women TV Anchors’ Personal Branding on Social Media

ABSTRACTWomen television journalists have long faced criticism and harassment regarding their appearance. The normalization of social media engagement in newsrooms, where journalists are expected to interact with their audience, creates new challenges for women journalists by providing forums for public judgment that was once a private matter. Research suggests that receiving harassing or abusive comments from audience members online can cause harm to the health, wellbeing, and careers of women television journalists. The public goods that are generated through such interaction are opaque at best. This essay focuses on three intersecting areas of concern pertaining to this issue: (1) The tension between journalistic standards and the requirements to engage in personal branding through social media; (2) The practice of requiring journalists to take their personal branding online, which exposes women journalists, in particular, to potentially harmful statements; and (3) The perpetuation of gender-based stereotypes and inequalities in television journalism, which we argue constitutes a social harm. We discuss these issues with reference to the existing empirical literature and an illustrative qualitative analysis of audience comments left on women news anchors’ Facebook pages. We also offer recommendations for news organizations, grounded in their duties to their workforces.

Nation, gender and the killing of an Indian journalist

In this paper, I examine representations of nation and gender in newspaper coverage of the murder of a prominent Indian journalist, Gauri Lankesh, in September 2017. Using a transnational feminist and postcolonial lens, I analyze different portrayals of her murder by juxtaposing newspaper articles by major U.S and Indian English-language newspapers. My analysis reveals that both media articles circulate representations reminiscent of transnational discourses that rationalize political projects in the name of saving women or, in this case, saving journalists. My analysis shows, on the one hand, U.S. depictions present a linear progress narrative portraying India's democracy as failing and inefficient. In addition, these accounts employ rescue narratives of Indian democracy and journalists. On the other hand, my analysis also reveals that liberal Indian media depict Lankesh as a martyr killed in the struggle against Hindutva nationalism. I examine how a vernacular press journalist like Gauri Lankesh could become a martyr for English-speaking intellectual liberals and the English-language media. While both media present different narratives of the murder and its aftermath, they both downplay its gendered implications. Using the case of Lankesh, I raise questions about the effect of such coverage on women journalists today.

Respectability and Reform: Irish American Women’s Activism, 1880–1920

Book Review| July 01 2019 Respectability and Reform: Irish American Women’s Activism, 1880–1920 Respectability and Reform: Irish American Women’s Activism, 1880–1920. By Tara M. McCarthy. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2018. xiii + 321 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $65 (cloth); $34.95 (paper). Patricia Kelleher Patricia Kelleher Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Patricia Kelleher is Professor of History at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on gender, class, and ethnicity among nineteenth-century Irish Americans. She has published articles in the Journal of Women’s History, Éire-Ireland, and the Journal of American Ethnic History. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2019) 38 (4): 92–95. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.38.4.0092 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Patricia Kelleher; Respectability and Reform: Irish American Women’s Activism, 1880–1920. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2019; 38 (4): 92–95. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.38.4.0092 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2019 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.