When: |
12 Apr through 15 Apr 2018 | |
CFP Deadline: |
30 |
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Where: |
Pittsburgh, United States | |
Website URL: |
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16676 | |
Categories: |
Arts & Humanities - Languages/Literature |
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Event description:
The Presence of Women Editors in the Press Industry (1850-1950).
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. Therefore, this panel encourages a thorough study of the common strategies and the cross-cultural networks that women editors developed in order to make their voice heard.
More particularly, this panel outlines possible avenues for theoretica...
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