Florida Talks - Florida Women, Advice & Social Change @ Spring Hill Branch

Newspaper advice columns started as lovelorn columns during Yellow Journalism as a way of showing that newspapers had a “heart.” These columns typically ran in the women’s section of metropolitan newspapers, many in Florida, and included a mixture of content, from traditional to progressive. Learn how these columns affected Floridian women’s lives and relationships in the 1950s and 1960s in this presentation. For adults. Space is limited. Registration required. 

Kimberly Voss (PhD, Maryland) is a full professor of journalism at the University of Central Florida. She has published 7 books, including Newspaper Fashion Journalism, Women Politicking Politely and The Food Section. She is a board member of the Florida Council for History Education and a book series editor for Mediating American History with Peter Lang. She is also a board member of the Florida Ethnic and Under-Represented Communities Digital Project – funded by NEH.

Funding for this Florida Talks program was provided through a grant from Florida Humanities with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.