M. DiCenzo & Kenneth A. Loparo 
Feminist Media History 
Suffrage, Periodicals and the Public Sphere

Highlighting the contributions of feminist media history to media studies and related disciplines, this book focuses on feminist periodicals emerging from or reacting to the Edwardian suffrage campaign and situates them in the context of current debates about the public sphere, social movements, and media history.

Table of Content

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Challenges and Contributions of Feminist Media History PART I: PUBLICS, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, AND MEDIA HISTORY Revisiting Debates about the Public Sphere Publics and Counterpublics Publics and Social Movements The Private and the Public Suffrage History and Social Movements Key Aspects of Contentious Collective Action Social Movement Organizations Temporal Continuity and Cycles of Protest Framing Culture and Social Movements Media and Social Movements Situating Women’s Political Periodicals in Press/Media History The Impact of Feminist Media Research New Directions The Feminist Press and Alternative Media Significance of Early Feminist Media The Case Studies PART II: THE CASE STUDIES Unity and Dissent: Official Organs of the Suffrage Campaign; M.Di Cenzo The Englishwoman: ‘Twelve Years of Brilliant Life’; L.Ryan Individualism and Introspection: the framing of feminism in The Freewoman ; L.Delap Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

About the author

MARIA DICENZO Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. She has published on feminist media history and the British suffrage press in journals such as
Media History,
Women’s History Review,
Victorian Review, and
Nineteenth Century Gender Studies.
 
LUCY DELAP Fellow of St Catharine’s College and a member of the History Faculty, University of Cambridge, UK. Her 2007 book
The Feminist Avant-Garde: Transatlantic Encounters of the Early Twentieth Century won the 2008 Women’s History Network Prize, and she has published widely on the history of feminism in Britain and North America.

LEILA RYAN holds a Graduate School appointment as an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at Mc Master University. She has published in the areas of health policy and health services as well as on Canadian biography in
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature.