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Title: If you're looking for a history of women in journalism, look elsewhere
Review: What should have been a lively history of pioneering women journalists read like the lackluster thesis it is. Assistant Professor Lutes, a self-proclaimed scholar in the area of women in journalism, places herself as the "sage on the stage" as she lectures ad nauseum about the objectivity and subjectivity, objectification and subjectivization of turn of the century newspaperwomen. The author presents very few actual examples of the works that defined these women and even less information regarding their backgrounds and histories.This book could provide the impetus for my dissertation on why academic writing should be relegated to textbooks and journals: the pedant always wants to 'instruct' in the abstract instead of 'guide' through the tangible.
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