Read The Good Girls Revolt Online
Authors: Lynn Povich
Tags: #Gender Studies, #Political Ideologies, #Social Science, #Civil Rights, #Sociology, #General, #Discrimination & Race Relations, #Conservatism & Liberalism, #Language Arts & Disciplines, #Political Science, #Women's Studies, #Journalism, #Media Studies
CHAPTER 2 “A NEWSMAGAZINE TRADITION”
| Page 15 | Classified ads were still segregated by gender: “ Pittsburgh Press v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations ,” http://aclu.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=3124 . |
| Page 16 | That infamous “tradition” began in 1923: Robert T. Elson, Time Inc.: The Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise, 1923–1941 (New York: Atheneum, 1968), 72. |
| Page 24 | Liz later told him: Osborn Elliott, The World of Oz: An Inside Report on Big-Time Journalism by the Former Editor of Newsweek (New York: Viking Press, 1980), 143. |
| Page 24 | Returning to the office at night: Gwenda Blair, “The Heart of the Matter,” Manhattan Inc., October 1984, 73. |
| Page 31 | In 1965, Karen was sent out : “Divorced. Alan Jay Lerner,” Time, December 23, 1974. |
CHAPTER 3 THE “HOT BOOK”
Unless otherwise noted, information about Osborn Elliott comes from his memoir,
The World of Oz: An Inside Report on Big-Time Journalism by the Former Editor of
Newsweek (New York: Viking Press, 1980).
| Page 34 | “Ozzy baby, I know where the smart money is”: Elliott, The World of Oz, 3. |
| Page 35 | To get Phil Graham interested : Ben Bradlee, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 224. |
| Page 36 | “Visually they are a nightmare”: Newsweek, February 24, 1964; Charles Kaiser, “A Magazine That Mattered,” Radar online, May 6, 2010; www.hillmanfoundation.org/blog/newsweek-sale . |
| Page 36 | “With Kermit, we had a Jewish intellectual”: Alex Kuczynski, “Kermit Lansner, 78, Former Newsweek Editor,” New York Times, May 22, 2000. |
| Page 39 | “No doubt the war”: Elliott, The World of Oz, 101. |
| Page 42 | Describing the weekly routine: Carole Wicker, “Limousine to Nowhere . . . If You’re a Girl at a News Magazine,” Cosmopolitan. |
| Page 43 | “The dialogue was eighth grade”: Robin Reisig, “Is Journalism an Air-Brushed Profession?” Village Voice, May 16, 1974, 24. |
| Page 46 | Nation researcher Kate Coleman: Kate Coleman, “Turning on Newsweek,” Scanlan’s Monthly, June 1970, 44. |
CHAPTER 4 RING LEADERS
| Page 52 | The famous “click!”: Jane O’Reilly, “The Housewife’s Moment of Truth,” Ms., December 1971. |
| Page 54 | At that time, the Marshall: “History 1960–1991,” Marshall Scholarships; www.marshallscholarship.org/about/history/1960 –1991. |
| Page 54 | the Rhodes wasn’t extended to women: “Second Class Citizens? How Women Became Rhodes Scholars,” Rhodes Project; http://therhodesproject.wordpress.com . |
| Page 60 | In the fall of 1969, Judy Gingold: Daisy Hernandez, “A Genteel Nostalgia, Going Out of Business,” New York Times, February 23, 2003. |
| Page 62 | She was a “red-diaper baby”: Patricia Lynden, “Red Diaper Baby,” New York Woman, August 1988. |
CHAPTER 5 “YOU GOTTA TAKE OFF YOUR WHITE GLOVES, LADIES”
| Page 77 | In October 1964 Otto Friedrich: Otto Friedrich, “There Are 00 Trees in Russia: The Function of Facts in News magazines,” Harper’s , October 1964, 59–65. |
| Page 79 | Fay wrote a scathing letter: Fay Willey, “Letter to the Editor,” Harper’s, December 1964, 4. |
| Page 81 | The great-granddaughter of a slave: Joan Steinau Lester in Conversation with Eleanor Holmes Norton, Fire in My Soul: The Life of Eleanor Holmes Norton (New York: Atria, 2003). Unless noted, biographical information about Eleanor Holmes Norton is based on Fire in My Soul . |
| Page 85 | The provision protecting women: Gail Collins, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present (New York: Little, Brown, |
| | and Company, 2009), 76. Feminist Jo Freeman argues that “sex” was not added to scuttle the bill. “How ‘Sex’ Got into Title VII,” www.jofreeman.com/lawandpolicy/titlevii.htm . |
| Page 86 | “Congressman Smith would joyfully disembowel”: Don Oberdorfer, “‘Judge’ Smith Moves with Deliberate Drag,” New York Times Magazine, November 12, 1964. |
CHAPTER 6 ROUND ONE
| Page 94 | At one point Vice President Spiro Agnew: Spiro Agnew, “Speech to Alabama Chamber of Commerce,” American History Online, Facts on File Inc., November 20, 1969. |
| Page 95 | “I idolized her”: Helen Dudar, The Attentive Eye: Selected Journalism, ed. Peter Goldman (Bloomington, IN: Xlibris Corporation, 2002). |
| Page 98 | Lucy was insulted : Susan Donaldson James, “Newsweek Still Wages Gender War, 40 Years Later,” ABCNews.com , March 23, 2010. |
| Page 101 | “My idea of a cold-sweat nightmare”: Brownmiller, In Our Time, 145. |
| Page 103 | As she wrote in her remarkably candid, Pulitzer Prize –winning autobiography: Graham, Personal History, 340, 418. |
| Page 104 | Kay replied that she encouraged her employees: “Kay in Miami,” Women’s Wear Daily, March 24, 1970. |
| Page 107 | Carrying hand-lettered signs: “‘Liberation’ Talk of the Town,” New Yorker, September 5, 1970, 28. |
| Page 108 | Describing the event on the ABC evening news: Susan Jeanne Douglas, Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1994) 163. |
| Page 109 | In a New York Times story about the agreement: “ News week Agrees to Speed Promotion of Women,” New York Times, August 27, 1970. |
CHAPTER 7 MAD MEN: THE BOYS FIGHT BACK
| Page 116 | When Katharine Graham suggested: Graham, Personal History, 424. |
| Page 117 | Hef’s memo as to why he didn’t like: Carrie Pitzulo, Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011), 142. |
CHAPTER 9 “JOE—SURRENDER”
| Page 140 | The Post women ended up filing: Chalmers M. Roberts, The Washington Post: The First 100 Years (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1977), 429. |
| Page 141 | “It was shortly after [the Metro Seven settlement]”: Dorothy Gilliam oral history, Washington Press Club Foundation, 1992–1993; http://beta.wpcf.org/oralhistory/gill4.html . |
| Page 141 | Her close friend at the Post : Graham, Personal History, 421. |
| Page 156 | The case had gotten so poisonous: Robertson, Girls in the Balcony, 203, 205. |
| Page 159 | On October 4, 1974, fifteen women filed: Media Report to Women, ed. Dr. Donna Allen, December 1, 1974. |
CHAPTER 10 THE BARRICADES FELL
| Page 162 | Its “statement of purpose” declared: “The National Black Feminist Organization’s Statement of Purpose, 1973,” University of Michigan–Dearborn; www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~ppennock/doc-BlackFeminist.htm . |
| Page 163 | The largest employer of women, the Bell System: Crista DeLuzio, ed., Women’s Rights: People and Perspectives (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2009), 197. |
| Page 163 | In 1971, a feminist attorney named Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “Breaking New Ground— Reed v. Reed, 404 US 71 (1971),” Supreme Court Historical Society; www.supremecourthistory.org/learning-center/womens-rights/breaking-new-ground . |
| Page 164 | However, President Richard Nixon vetoed it: Abby J. Cohen, “A Brief History of Federal Financing for Child Care in the United States,” Future of Children Journal 6, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 1996): 32; http://futureofchildren.org/futureofchildren/publications/docs/06_02_01.pdf . |
| Page 164 | By the end of 1971, stories on the new women’s movement: Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America (New York: Penguin Books, 2006), 302. |
| Page 164 | Distrusting the coverage of the women’s movement: Patricia Bradley, Mass Media and the Shaping of American Feminism, 1963–1975 (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003), 49. |
| Page 164 | Beginning in 1968, publications calling for social change: Martha Allen, “Multi-Issue Women’s Periodicals: The Pioneers,” Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press; www.wifp.org/womensmediach3.html . |
| Page 164 | In all, more than five hundred feminist periodicals: Kathryn T. Flannery, Feminist Literacies, 1968–75 (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2005), 23. |
| Page 165 | That same year, NOW filed a petition: “Broadcasting Cases,” National Women and Media Collection, Donna Allen (1920–1999) Papers, 1920–1992 (C3795), State Historical Society of Missouri, University of Missouri, Columbia; http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/invent/3795.html#broa |
| Page 165 | In February 1973, fifty women at NBC: “City Rights Unit Finds NBC Sexism,” New York Times, January 24, 1975. |
| Page 165 | The case would be settled in 1975 for $2 million: Arnold H. Lubash, “$2 Million NBC Pact Is Set as a Settlement with Women of Staff,” New York Times, February 17, 1977. |
| Page 166 | In March 1970, a reporter for the British newsmagazine: Lilla Lyon, “The March of Time’ s Women,” New York Magazine, February 22, 1971. |
CHAPTER 11 PASSING THE TORCH
| Page 193 | “A merger has created”: “Daily Beast, Newsweek to Merge,” Morning Edition, National Public Radio, November 12, 2010. |
EPILOGUE: WHERE THEY ARE NOW
Much of the information on Liz Peer came from Gwenda Blair, “The Heart of the Matter,”
Manhattan Inc.,
October 1984, 73.
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