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on journalism, 254

male reporters and, 243–44, 248

stunt genre’s collapse and, 245–48, 254

Stackhouse, Eleanor. See Marks, Nora

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 23n, 175, 187

Stead, W. T., 38, 39, 159, 210

Steffens, Lincoln, 9, 256, 270

Steinem, Gloria, 272–73

Stiffed (Faludi), 274

Stone, Lucy, 131

Storey, William, 54

Story of Evangelina Cisneros, The (Hawthorne), 244

“Study in Scarlet, A” (Conan Doyle), 48

stunt reporting (by women), 133, 279

activism and, 42, 211–13, 252

anonymity and, 206, 246, 252, 276–88

Banks introduces to England, 153–63

beginnings, Bly’s exposé of Blackwell Island’s Insane Asylum, 5, 27, 28–37

beginnings, Girl Reporter’s abortion exposé, 68, 68–70, 69, 74, 78–79

careers following demise of genre, 262

circulation war of the 1890s and, 7–8

as commonplace, 198–99, 206

continuing genre of, 272–77

critics and opponents of, 7–8, 84, 199–200, 206, 252–53, 276

as damaging a career, 206, 272–73, 283

dangers of, 206–7, 224, 252

“daring journalist” image, 192–93

depicted in fiction, 253–54

detectives and, 42–53, 78, 153, 255

double standard for, 9, 276–77

earnings, 187

education level of reporters, 175, 254

engaging the reader and, 5, 36, 40–41, 48, 59, 67, 73, 78, 161, 168, 182, 192, 196, 199, 207–8n, 225–26, 226n, 250–51

expanding roles for women, 7

exploitation of, 205, 284

freedom of life of, 217–18, 274

genre’s collapse, 245–58

impact on journalism, 7, 54, 105, 271

independence of women and, 105–6

intimate tone and structure of, 7, 286n

issues faced by, 8

Lockhart’s new territory for, 168–69

marriage and, 169–72, 174–75

muckraking and, 7, 9, 256, 257, 270

multiplying of reporters, 197–200

narrative-based nonfiction and, 269

New Journalism and, 7, 9, 268, 270

as not quite respectable, 112, 133–34

as not taken seriously, 275–77

popularity of, 279

reform efforts and, 157

reporters of the late 1880s and early 1890s, 174–75, 174–75n, 270

rights of women and, 5–7

sexual topics and, 205–6

societal impact of, 5, 114–15

stories similar to detective novels, 48

taboos broken by, 78, 78n

topics covered by, 7

undercover investigations, 1–4, 9, 38, 44–53, 56–58, 60, 64, 64–66, 141, 158–62, 215, 254–55, 273, 274

unscrupulous assigning editors and, 218

as way into journalism, 253, 262, 272

white-owned newspapers and, 134

youth necessary for, 157, 157n, 175

suffrage and suffragists, 14, 175, 176, 185, 187, 297, 298

Sweet, Ada, 89, 89, 90, 98, 99, 100, 285

Marks and, 99, 101, 285

Tales of the City Room (Jordan), 247

Tarbell, Ida, 257

Ten Days in a Mad-House (Bly), 28–37, 29, 39, 40

“They Work in an Inferno” (Nelson), 65

Thompson, Hunter S., 268, 270–71

Thomson, Mortimer, 38

Times-Picayune, 48

Tompkins, Elizabeth A., “Helen Dare,” 150–51, 196–97, 197, 216, 274

Toronto Mail and Empire, 247–48

“Truth About Lynching” (Wells), 136–37

Tucker, Josiah, 207

Valesh, Eva McDonald, “Eva Gay,” 42–53, 86, 149, 175n, 221, 228, 268, 285, 293–94

appearance, 42, 224

Dingley interview, 232

exposés by, “a crusade for women,” 53

factory conditions investigated, 44–46

influence on women and journalism, 58, 61, 271

Journal firing of, 246

as labor activist, 51–52, 149, 223, 230

marriages, 222–24, 223n, 293–94

McKinley interview, 232

Minnesota origins, 43, 222, 223

New Bedford strike and advocating for “Journal’s bill,” 221, 226–32, 238–39

at New York Journal, 222, 224–33, 293

People’s Party and, 222

philosophy of, 226, 238

St. Paul Globe and, 43–44, 51, 51, 60, 86

Suicide Club article, 224–25

Valesh, Frank, 222

VIDA (Women in Literary Arts), 9

Voice from the South, A (Cooper), 132

Walls, Jeannette, 269

Washington Bee, 137–38

Watterson, Helen, 142

Webb, Beatrice, 176

Weekly Pioneer Times, 170

Wells, Ida B. (later Wells-Barnett), 7, 133, 133–37, 175, 247, 250, 263–65, 264, 287, 296–97, 297n

Afro-American League and, 263, 265

anti-lynching campaigns, 134–37, 139, 139n, 172–74, 216, 247, 263, 296–97

discussion of women’s bodies, 137

dispatches from abroad, 172–73

as editor, Chicago Conservator, 174

Free Speech and Headlight, 135, 139

influence on journalism, 271–72

marriage, 174

Matthews holds benefit for, 139–40

in New York City, 136–37

nickname and pen name, 133, 139

suffrage movement and, 297

threats against, 136

World’s Columbian Exposition, 150

writing career, 133

West, James J., 55, 60, 81, 98–99

Weyler, General Valeriano, 198

When Abortion Was a Crime (Reagan), 278–79

Willard, Frances, 173, 199–200

Wilson, Erasmus, 14–15, 19, 23, 39

Without You There Is No Us (Kim), 276

Wolcott, James, 269–70

Wolfe, Tom, 9, 268, 269, 271

Woman’s Bible (Stanton), 187

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 173, 199

women

abortion issue and censorship of reproductive information, 71, 82–83

birthrates and number of children, 78

Bly inspiring, 37, 48, 62, 84, 166–67

Bly’s impact on the perception of, 39

Bly’s messages to, 63

criminal justice system and, 189

depicted as powerless, 38–39

diagnosis of “hysteria” and, 32–33

expanding roles for, 7, 138

as factory workers, 44–46, 47, 52, 154–55

false advertising aimed at, 123, 123n

independence and, 105–6, 154–55, 156

inferiority of, science and, 6, 125

as jurors, 130–31, 130n, 256

labor strikes and, 221, 222

labor unions and, 47

legal practice by, 6

male pseudonyms for, 6

marriage as support, 169–72, 174–75

Midwest and liberal attitudes, 174–75n

midwifery and, 71–72

models for midlife career women, 175

nature of womanhood, 130–31

newspapers and opportunities, 62, 205

physical freedom, Lockhart and, 169

professionalization of journalism as barrier to, 255

rights limited, 5–6, 14, 47, 227

sexual harassment of, 5, 7, 59–60, 61, 64, 115, 118

unfair labor practices and, 227–28

vulnerability and trafficking, 259–61

wage inequity and, 52, 53

“women’s sphere,” 14, 15

writing, from a female perspective, 8–9

writing by, devaluing of, 5, 6, 269

Women & Power (Beard), 207–8n

“Women in Gutter Journalism” (Cahoon), 284

Woodhull, Victoria, 67

Woolf, Virginia, 8

World’s Columbian Exposition (1893), 149–51, 197, 214

Tompkins disappearance, 150–51, 197

yellow journalism, 8, 67–68, 188, 203, 207–8, 207–8n, 231, 236, 239, 249–54, 250n, 262, 298

Banks’s critique of, 252–53, 284

critics of, 250, 250n, 250n, 252

female undercover reporters and, 252–53

New Journalism influenced by, 270

professionalization of journalism and, 254

term coined, 207

World and Journal banned and, 208

Yurick, Sol, 270

About the Author

KIM TODD is the award-winning author of several books, including Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis, and Tinkering with Eden: A Natural History of Exotic Species in America, winner of the PEN/Jerard Award and the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award. Her essays and articles have appeared Smithsonian, Salon, Sierra magazine, Orion, and Best American Science and Nature Writing anthologies, among other publications. She is a member of the MFA faculty at the University of Minnesota and lives in Minneapolis with her family.

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