"Those knights of the pen and pencil": Women journalists and cultural leadership of the women's movement in Australia and the United States

Kirkby, D

"Those knights of the pen and pencil": Women journalists and cultural leadership of the women's movement in Australia and the United States

Kirkby, D

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Citation:: Labour History, 2013, 104 (1), pp. 81 - 100
Issue Date:: 2013-09-25

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dc.contributor.author	Kirkby, D https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3288-4819	en_US
dc.date.issued	2013-09-25	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Labour History, 2013, 104 (1), pp. 81 - 100	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0023-6942	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/118167
dc.description.abstract	Journalism has been crucial to progressive political movements, and the work of journalists has provided the cultural leadership necessary for recruiting members and advancing the cause. This cultural leadership is explored through the journalism of three women who in Australia and the United States, wrote for a labour and socialist readership and also edited a periodical. Combining paid work and activism, journalism gave them an occupation that was an example to other women, and a vehicle for publicising women's rights. Exercising leadership through print media was important in expanding women's economic citizenship and their political engagement. Through their words and personal example over a century, these three women journalists - Alice Henry, Jennie Scott Griffiths and Della Elliott - provided the leadership that helped construct women in the twentieth century as active political subjects. © 2013 Australian Society for the Study of Labour History.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Labour History	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.5263/labourhistory.104.0081	en_US
dc.subject.classification	History	en_US
dc.title	"Those knights of the pen and pencil": Women journalists and cultural leadership of the women's movement in Australia and the United States	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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Journalism has been crucial to progressive political movements, and the work of journalists has provided the cultural leadership necessary for recruiting members and advancing the cause. This cultural leadership is explored through the journalism of three women who in Australia and the United States, wrote for a labour and socialist readership and also edited a periodical. Combining paid work and activism, journalism gave them an occupation that was an example to other women, and a vehicle for publicising women's rights. Exercising leadership through print media was important in expanding women's economic citizenship and their political engagement. Through their words and personal example over a century, these three women journalists - Alice Henry, Jennie Scott Griffiths and Della Elliott - provided the leadership that helped construct women in the twentieth century as active political subjects. © 2013 Australian Society for the Study of Labour History.

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