Battles for Belonging - Women Journalists, Political Culture, and the Paradoxes of Inclusion

Battles for Belonging: Women Journalists, Political Culture, and the Paradoxes of Inclusion in Colombia, 1943-1970 examines women journalists who conceived of their publications as political interventions in mid-twentieth-century Colombia. These journalists committed to shaping justice and opportunity for women in society through writing while battling within the publishing realm to also transform and professionalize the practice of journalism in their own terms. By analyzing the contentious narratives of gender and class these women crafted as well as their conflicting efforts to maintain their stature in the printing and public worlds, it reveals the ongoing negotiations involved within their disputes over inclusion and democracy in a country still finding its way to equality, peace, and stability between the 1940s and 1960s. This book challenges oversimplified portrayals of struggles for power that either glorify or vilify these historical processes by erasing the complexity of the political and social actors involved in them. It stresses the importance of women, but not to the expense of a balanced critique of their historical reality, actions, and endeavors. This is a history of paradoxical political manifestations and a redefinition of power struggles as multidirectional, intersectional, non-monolithic historical processes, from the viewpoint of women.

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By Sandra Sánchez-López

Summary

This book examines the ongoing negotiations involved within women’s disputes over inclusion and democracy from the 1940s through the 1960s in Colombia.

Product details

• Authors: Sandra S?nchez-L?pez, Sandra Sanchezlopez, Sandra Sanchez-Lopez, Sandra Sanchez–Lopez, Sandra Sánchez-López, Sandra Sánchez–López
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2024
• EAN: 9781793653567
• ISBN: 978-1-79365-356-7
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Social Movements in the Americas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Media Studies, Latin America, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Press & journalism, News media & journalism, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Media studies: Journalism, Gender studies: women & girls, Latin America - Mexico, Central America, South America