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A woman of the Times : journalism, feminism, and the career of Charlotte Curtis
- Title
- A woman of the Times : journalism, feminism, and the career of Charlotte Curtis / Marilyn S. Greenwald ; foreword by Liz Smith.
- Author
- Greenwald, Marilyn S.
- Publication
- Athens : Ohio University Press, [1999], ©1999.
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- Description
- xxiv, 251 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- For twenty-five years, Charlotte Curtis was a society women's reporter and editor and an op-ed editor at the New York Times. As the first woman associate editor at the Times, Curtis was a pioneering journalist and one of the first nationwide to change the nature and content of the women's pages from fluffy wedding announcements and recipes to the more newsy, issue-oriented stories that characterize them today.
- As Greenwald's narrative reveals, Curtis's successes were hard won. And in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, pivotal decades in American journalism, she covered some of the key stories of the era - the Robert F. Kennedy funeral train, the early days of the women's movement, and the tumultuous 1968 political conventions.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-242) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Liz Smith -- 1. A Life in Public Service -- 2. A Progressive Upbringing -- 3. Leaving Home -- 4. Charlotte's Ruse -- 5. "All Brides Are Not Beautiful" -- 6. The Tiny Person with the Huge Byline -- 7. "They Hail Planes as Most People Hail Taxis" -- 8. Panther Tales -- 9. Changing Times -- 10. Leaving the Champagne-and-Caviar Beat -- 11. The Best of Times -- 12. A Dresden Doll -- 13. Final Tribute.
- ISBN
- 0821412655 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98050091
- OCLC
- ocm40347410
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries