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Burt, Elizabeth V., ed. Women's Press Organizations, 1881-1999. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. 348 pp. $85.
Women's Press 1881-1999 is not so much a book as it is a valuable source for researchers who want to focus on women in the media.
It is clear from the introduction that the authors had a difficult time finding records from many of the women's press associations. Some of the records have simply disappeared. However, this publication carefully documents forty organizations that have served women-- and eventually many of them included men-- in the media. Thirty-two authors, generally professors in journalism or communications departments around the United States, wrote the chapters.
This book does not pretend to offer an in-depth look at each of the press organizations it identifies. Instead, the authors and...