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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Povich, Lynn. Good girls revolt New York : PublicAffairs, 2012 [electronic resource]. (OCoLC)801365260 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lynn Povich |
| ISBN: | 9781610391733 161039173X 9781610391740 1610391748 |
| OCLC Number: | 778420740 |
| Notes: | Editors file story : girls file complaint -- A newsmagazine tradition -- The "hot book" -- Ring leaders -- You gotta take off your white gloves, ladies -- Round one -- Mad men : the boys fight back -- The steel magnolia -- Joe-surrender -- The barricades fell -- Passing the torch. |
| Description: | xx, 249 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Prologue: What was the problem? -- "Editors file story; girls file complaint" -- "A newsmagazine tradition" -- The "hot book" -- Ring leaders -- "You gotta take off your white gloves, ladies" -- Round one -- Mad men : the boys fight back -- The steel magnolia -- "Joe-- surrender" -- The barricades fell -- Passing the torch -- Where they are now. |
| Responsibility: | Lynn Povich. |
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<p>Gloria Steinem<br>""The Good Girls Revolt "is as compelling as any novel, and also an accurate, intimate history of new women journalists invading the male journalistic world of the 1970s. Lynn Povich turns this epic revolt into a lesson on why and how we've just begun."<p>Jeannette Walls"A meticulously reported and highly readable account of a pivotal time in the women's movement." "Kirkus""Povich's in-depth research, narrative skills and eyewitness observations provide an entertaining and edifying look at a pivotal event in women's history." <br>"New York Times<br>""The personal and the political are deftly interwoven in the fast-moving narrative.... "The Good Girls Revolt" has many timely lessons for working women who are concerned about discrimination today....But this sparkling, informative book may help move these goals a tiny bit closer."<p>"Boston Globe""Solidly researched and should interest readers who care about feminist history and how gender issues play out in the culture.""<br>Macleans""Povich's memoir of the tortuous, landmark battle that paved the way for a generation of female writers and editors is illuminating in its details [and] casts valuable perspective on a trail-blazing case that shouldn't be forgotten.""<br>American Journalism Review""[Povich] strikes a fair tone, neither naive nor sanctimonious.... Among her achievements is a complex portrait of Newsweek Editor Osborn Elliott and his path from defensive adversary to understanding ally." <br>"Liesl Schillinger, New York Times<br>""Women still have a long way to go, the journalist Lynn Povich rousingly reminds readers in "The Good Girls Revolt," her fascinating (and long overdue) history of the class-action lawsuit undertaken by four dozen female researchers and underlings at "Newsweek" magazine four decades ago.... If ever a book could remind women to keep their white gloves off and to keep fighting the good fight, this is the one." <br>"Washingtonian""Crisp, revealing.... [A] t Read more...
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