Women in PR History

Anastasios Theofilou is Principal Academic in Public Relations at the Faculty of Media and Communication, at Bournemouth University, UK. He holds a BA in Political Science and Public Administration, specializing in International Relations, awarded by the University of Athens, an MBA awarded by the National Technical University of Athens and the Athens University of Economics and Business, and finally a PhD awarded by the Athens University of Economics and Business.

Introduction

1 Re-examining the existence of the "velvet ghetto" and the "glass ceiling": examining the status of American women in public relations a generation later

2 Women in public relations: a thematic analysis of ECM data (2009–2019)

3 ‘Signum authenticum’ of women: herstories in Turkey’s public relations during the early years

4 Professional standards of PR in three decades through the lenses of Turkish women presidents of IPRA

5 Betty Stewart, Orientalism and Oriental Cavalcade: entertainment public relations in late 1950s Australia

6 The militant documentary films of Helena Lumbreras as dissent and protest public relations

7 A ‘herstory’ of Malaysian public relations: Paddy Schubert, Malaysia’s women PR pioneer

8 The Loi Krathong festival and Nang Noppamas: Applying current ‘PR’ theory to identify the first Thai female PR practitioner

9 Inez Kaiser: the perseverance of a public relations pioneer

Conclusions