Woman's Journal
Woman's Journal was a women's rights journal that appeared from 1870 to 1931. It was founded in 1870 by Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Browne Blackwell as a weekly magazine. In 1917 it was bought by Carrie Chapman Catt 's "Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission" and combined with The Woman Voter and National Suffrage News to form a new paper, The Woman Citizen . It then served as the official body of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) until 1920, when the organization wasreorganizedinto the League of Women Voters because the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, which gave women the right to vote. The appearance of Woman Citizen changed from weekly to biweekly and monthly. In 1927 she got the new title The Woman's Journal . In June 1931 it stopped its publication.
history
Journal of the "American Woman's Suffrage Association"
Woman's Journal was founded in Boston in 1870 by Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Browne Blackwell as a weekly magazine. The new magazine absorbed Mary A. Livermore's The Agitator and also the lesser known magazine called Woman's Advocate . It became the main journal of the American women's rights movement.
The first issue was published on January 8th, exactly two years after Susan B. Anthony 's The Revolution was published . The editors were both Stone and Blackwell, assisted by Livermore. Julia Ward Howe published it from 1872 to 1879. Alice Stone Blackwell , daughter of Stone and Blackwell, began editing in 1883 and was solely responsible until 1917 after the death of her father in 1909. Contributions were made by Antoinette Brown Blackwell , Mary Johnston, Stephen S. Wise, Zona Gale , Florence Kelley, Witter Bynner , Ben B. Lindsey , Louisa May Alcott , Harriet Clisby and Caroline Bartlett Crane. William Lloyd Garrison was also a frequent contributor.
Around 1887 the headquarters moved to Boston on Park Street. Woman's Journal refused to publish ads promoting tobacco, brandy, and drugs.
In 1910 affiliated Woman's Journal the Progress one, the official organ of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). It appeared in this guise until 1912, at which time it was renamed Woman's Journal and Suffrage News . In 1915, the edition had reached 27,634 copies, compared to the 2328 copies from 1909.
The Woman Citizen
In 1917, the Woman's Journal was bought by Carrie Chapman Catt 's "Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission" for $ 50,000 and incorporated into The Woman Voter , the official organ of the New York City Woman Suffrage Party and NAWSA's National Suffrage News ; the new title was The Woman Citizen . It was the official organ of NAWSA until 1920, when NAWSA was transformed into the League of Women Voters . The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed and ratified that year, and women’s right to vote had become law in all states.
The Editor-in-Chief of The Woman Citizen was Rose Emmet Young; Alice Stone Blackwell was a contributing editor. Every congress member received a free subscription to the magazine. In addition to women's suffrage, the paper also dealt with problems such as child labor . After women gained the right to vote, the journal's focus shifted to women's political education.
The frequency of the Woman Citizen decreased from weekly to biweekly and monthly. In 1927 it was renamed The Woman's Journal , but ceased publication four years later, in 1931.
See also
Web links
- Woman's Journal in the Harvard Woman's Rights Collection
- Feminist and Women's Periodicals at Stanford
Individual evidence
- ^ Boston Almanac & Business Directory. 1887
- ^ The record of the Leslie woman suffrage commission, inc., 1917-1929, by Rose Young.
- ^ Library of Congress. American Memory: Votes for Women. One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview , compiled by E. Susan Barber with additions by Barbara Orbach Natanson. Retrieved on May 19, 2010.
- ↑ Enzyclopaedia Britannica website , accessed January 6, 2019.