Dissertation Information for Nancy Ann Yamane NAME: - Nancy Ann Yamane
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- History
SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (1995)
ADVISORS: - Norris Hundley Jr.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - None
MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected
Title: Women, power, and the press: The case of San Francisco, 1868 to 1896
Abstract: The work of newspaperwomen, frequently overlooked, was fundamental to the emergence of the "leviathan" newspaper in the late nineteenth-century United States. Using San Francisco and five of its major dailies between 1868 and 1896 as a case example (Alta, Bulletin, Call, Chronicle, and Examiner), the purpose of this study is to determine the role of women journalists in the creation of the "modern" newspaper, to understand their influence on the development of the urban press as an institution, and to explain the extent to which they defined "news" in the city's mass-circulating press.
These years were markers of the women's movement in California, with reformer Laura de Force Gordon giving the first known suffrage speech in San Francisco in 1868 and the first proposed suffrage amendment to California's constitution, which failed, going before the electorate in 1896. During the same years, the city's largest newspapers transformed from four-page, information-oriented "bulletins" to sixteen-page dailies with thirty-six page Sunday editions. Dailies of the 1890s expanded news and entertainment stories as well as information. News created by the city's mass-circulating dailies, was a product of white middle to upper class culture, and women of the same socioeconomic rank contributed to its production.
Women journalists working for the press in the early years were primarily contributing correspondents or writers of literature, and literary comment, theater, or women's interests. By the nineties, women were still contributors but increasingly represented on full-time staffs as "reporters." In this capacity, some performed the same work as their male colleagues, but most helped to develop separate Sunday magazine sections. Women gained some editorial power in these years, and were able to use their traditional forms of writing--correspondence, fiction, theater reviews, and women's interests--for an assortment of topics, as well as their political ambitions.
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