Reconstructing collective professional identity: A case study of a women’s journalist association in the post–second-wave feminist movement in the United States

Abstract

This study explores the relationship between social movements and professions by focusing on the development of women journalist associations in the post-feminist era in the United States. The analysis focuses on the case of the US-based organization Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS) using 41 oral history interviews with JAWS members and archival research. The results illustrate how the members of JAWS defined, contested, and negotiated the collective identity of their organization as well as the meaning of women journalists more broadly.

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“…Transcripts were analyzed qualitatively in multiple stages as part of a process of transforming raw data into identifiable themes corresponding with the research questions guiding the study. We followed the three-stage process outlined by Emerson et al (1995) for this kind of analysis, a common approach in interview-based studies of journalists and their working practices (see, for example, Ferrucci & Taylor, 2019; Ferrucci & Vos, 2017; Jenkins et al, 2018). An initial “memo stage” involved a line-by-line reading and annotation of the body of data.…”

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