Sympathy, madness, and crime: how four nineteenth-century journalists made the newspaper women's business
Auteur :
Roggenkamp, Karen
Éditeur :
Kent State University Press
ISBN :
9781606352878
Date de publication :
20 oct. 2016
Dimensions :
23,1 x 15,7 x 2,2 cm
Poids :
433 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Explores how, in writing about insane asylums, the mentally ill, prisons, and criminals, women journalists in the late nineteeenth century deployed a gendered sympathetic language to excavate a professional space within a male-dominated workplace. These pioneering women exemplified how narrative sympathy opened female space within the “hard news†city room of America’s largest newspapers.