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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Drawing from a constellation of contemporary theory from multiple disciplines, including social movement theory, intersectionality, and status politics,
Front Pages, Front Lines brings together new perspectives on suffrage and offers compelling suggestions for further research into media and social change." --
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly "The greatest strength of this collection is the diversity that it represents . . . worth a slot on the bookshelf of any supporter of women's rights who realize the fight still rages on." --
American Journalism "Steiner, Kitch, and Kroeger have put together an important and fascinating anthology, the first book to explore, in depth, the complex relationship between the US women's suffrage movement and the media that both supported and resisted it. . . . Highly recommended." --
ChoiceTable of ContentsBack coverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Historiography: Women’s Suffrage and the Media2. Nineteenth-Century Suffrage Journals: Inventing and Defending New Women3. The Woman’s Exponent: A Utah Case Study in the Campaign for Women’s Suffrage4. Writing and “Righting”: African American Women Seek the Vote5. Woman Suffrage and the New Negro in the Black Public Sphere6. Differently Radical: Suffrage Issues and Feminist Ideas in The Crisis and The Masses7. A Countermovement on the Verge of Defeat: Antisuffragist Arguments in 1917 Press Coverage8. Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Nashville Press:“A White Man’s Country and a White Man9. The Facilitators: Elites in the Victory of the Women’s Suffrage Movement10. After Suffrage: An Uncharted Path11. Memory, Interrupted: A Century of Remembering and Forgetting the Story of Women’s SuffrageAfterword: Women’s Suffrage, the Press, and the Enduring Problem of White SupremacyAbout the ContributorsIndexBack cover
