“We Agreed That Women Were a Nuisance in the Office, Anyway”

Lonsdale, Sarah

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“…Each white female character is herself "an unwelcome 'outsider'" who nevertheless finds (with the help of a supportive community) a place within the physical public sphere despite social gerrymandering meant to entrench masculine power structures. 23 For hooks, home-making is "a radically subversive political gesture," a celebration of Black people's humanity and belonging in the face of a white supremacist society. 24 The female journalist characters in the period's fiction-all of them white, most of them writers for mainstream newspapers and magazines-are of course part of and benefit from institutionalized racism.…”

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“Like Home”: Gerrymandering the Physical Public Sphere in Female Journalist Narratives

Plummer

2024

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The cultural figure of the female journalist most clearly embodies the opportunities given to, and the anxieties caused by, the period’s working women. As writers, they fought for rhetorical space in the pages of newspapers and periodicals, and as women, they faced social pressure to avoid the male-dominated physical public sphere or move within it under specific conditions. Even the increasing number of female journalists at the turn of the century could not guarantee their place within the newsroom itself, let alone the world beyond its walls. Instead, their struggle to stake a claim in physical public spaces manifested in fiction and nonfiction narratives as a search for “home,” or a place of belonging. This article explores the exclusively white-woman fiction and nonfiction narratives by and about nonwhite and nonmainstream women through a human geography lens, arguing that their shared central issue is the social “gerrymandering” of women and other overlapping marginalized groups out of physical public spaces, as well as the efforts of women to “redistrict” the social spheres into a comfortable public place in which everyone could thrive.

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“Like Home”: Gerrymandering the Physical Public Sphere in Female Journalist Narratives

Plummer

2024

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“…Often women journalists were understood as strangers or even intruders into the maledominated newsroom; they were outsiders to the culture and there was certainly no welcome-mat rolled out for their entry (Lonsdale, 2013). Since journalism is governed by objectivity, the conventional sign of a truly journalistic piece is found in writing that is factual, hard and uninfluencedparticularly by any hint of personal opinions or emotions.…”

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The fictional sob sisters: narrative construction of women journalists in popular literature

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This thesis is dedicated to my brother, Adam Batschelet, whose persistent support and guidance inspired me to apply to graduate school. I owe all of my success in graduate school, including this thesis, to him. I'd also like to dedicate this to my parents, Allen and Terri Batschelet, whose endless encouragement, advice and support motivated my success. I'd also like to dedicate this thesis to my major professor, Tracy Lucht, for her generous support, insightful guidance and the many cups of coffee over which this thesis was discussed. Her mentorship and friendship shaped my experience at Iowa State, and piqued my passion for research, for which I am truly thankful.

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A History of 1930s British Literature

Ewins¹

2019

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“We Agreed That Women Were a Nuisance in the Office, Anyway”

Cited by 37 publications

References 8 publications

“Like Home”: Gerrymandering the Physical Public Sphere in Female Journalist Narratives

“Like Home”: Gerrymandering the Physical Public Sphere in Female Journalist Narratives

The fictional sob sisters: narrative construction of women journalists in popular literature

A History of 1930s British Literature

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