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Linda Steiner is a professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and a coauthor of Women and Journalism. Carolyn Kitch is a professor of journalism and media & communication at Temple University and the author of Pennsylvania in Public Memory: Reclaiming the Industrial Past. Brooke Kroeger is a professor of journalism at New York University and the author of The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote.

Back coverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Historiography: Women’s Suffrage and the Media2. Nineteenth-Century Suffrage Journals: Inventing and Defending New Women3. The Woman’s Exponent: A Utah Case Study in the Campaign for Women’s Suffrage4. Writing and “Righting”: African American Women Seek the Vote5. Woman Suffrage and the New Negro in the Black Public Sphere6. Differently Radical: Suffrage Issues and Feminist Ideas in The Crisis and The Masses7. A Countermovement on the Verge of Defeat: Antisuffragist Arguments in 1917 Press Coverage8. Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Nashville Press:“A White Man’s Country and a White Man9. The Facilitators: Elites in the Victory of the Women’s Suffrage Movement10. After Suffrage: An Uncharted Path11. Memory, Interrupted: A Century of Remembering and Forgetting the Story of Women’s SuffrageAfterword: Women’s Suffrage, the Press, and the Enduring Problem of White SupremacyAbout the ContributorsIndexBack cover