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BEAUTY, BRAINS, AND BYLINES: COMPARING THE FEMALE JOURNALIST IN
THE FICTION OF SHERRYL WOODS AND SARAH SHANKMAN
by
Amanda Marie Rossie
________________________________________________________________________
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(JOURNALISM)
May 2009
Copyright 2009 Amanda Marie Rossie
Object Description
| Title | Beauty, brains, and bylines: comparing the female journalist in the fiction of Sherryl Woods and Sarah Shankman |
| Author | Rossie, Amanda Marie |
| Author email | rossie@usc.edu; amanda.rossie@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Journalism (Online Journalism) |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-04-16 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-05-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Saltzman, Joseph |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Castaneda, Laura Banet-Weiser, Sarah |
| Abstract | This work examines the image of the female journalist in two series of novels by authors Sherryl Woods and Sarah Shankman. Tracing the image of the female journalist from its historical roots to its appearance in late twentieth-century fiction, this study uses the two main protagonists as a guide. Focusing on major stereotypes like the sob sister, stunt reporter, victim, and "one of the boys" this work contextualizes her image alongside her real-life popular culture counterparts. Close examinations of the characters’ relationships with men, newsgathering ethics, and publicity they experience as successful female reporters working in a predominately male profession are crucial to the larger picture to which these images contribute. The authors' attempts at reproducing accurate representations of females within the newsroom and portraying progressive, liberated representations of womanhood are also considered. The final chapter analyzes the series' raceless Southern settings as both a historical impossibility and the creation of a utopian society that propagates racism without "racists." |
| Keyword | image of the female journalist in twentieth-century fiction; stereotypes of women reporters; newsgathering ethics; representations of femininity; race and class issues in the South |
| Coverage era | Twentieth Century |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2167 |
| Rights | Rossie, Amanda Marie |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Rossie-2692 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume44/etd-Rossie-2692.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Full text | BEAUTY, BRAINS, AND BYLINES: COMPARING THE FEMALE JOURNALIST IN THE FICTION OF SHERRYL WOODS AND SARAH SHANKMAN by Amanda Marie Rossie ________________________________________________________________________ A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (JOURNALISM) May 2009 Copyright 2009 Amanda Marie Rossie |
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