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Journalism

Boekbijdrage - Hoofdstuk

While there were women journalists from the eighteenth century onwards their numbers grew substantially in the course of the nineteenth century. Women wrote mainly anonymously or pseudonymously, so the exact numbers of women actively involved in journalism are unknown, but they succeeded to prove themselves at every stage of the production of the printed press. The – largely imagined – huge numbers of this growing yet hidden community was felt as threatening to the professional male journalist who reacted by presenting women journalists as unskilled and unschooled and produced unattractive caricatures of the professional woman journalist so as to put off aspiring women writers. At the same time women reacted by producing informative manuals and clamoring for a better education, but, especially, by organizing themselves and establishing professional societies. By the beginning of the twentieth century the woman journalist was a fait accompli.
Boek: The Palgrave encyclopedia of Victorian women’s writing
Pagina's: 1 - 7
ISBN:9783030027216
Jaar van publicatie:2020
Toegankelijkheid:Open