The Presence of Women Editors in the Press Industry (1850-1950)
updated:
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 - 10:55am
49th annual NeMLA convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (April 12 to 15, 2018)
deadline for submissions:
Saturday, September 30, 2017
This panel examines the active participation of women in the public dialogue through the prism of their periodical publications. The rise of the periodical press has been recognized as a key factor in the formation of the public sphere in the nineteenth century (Habermas 1962). Studies of twentieth-century editorship, however, tend to take the institutionalization of editorship for granted. Male editors are often known by name, and they are studied in the light of their impact on the socio-political landscape of their time. Historically, however, editorship (and women’s editorship in particular) was often anonymous or pseudonymous and even explicitly staged as performance.