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Jess McHugh

Jess McHugh
Jess McHugh is a writer and researcher whose work has appeared across a variety of national and international publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Nation, TIME, The Paris Review, The Guardian, The New Republic, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Fortune, Village Voice, The Believer, and Lapham’s Quarterly, among others. She has reported stories from four continents on a range of cultural and historical topics, from present-day Liverpool punks to the history of 1960s activists in Greenwich Village.


The Power of Community: On the Radical History of Women’s Magazines

Jess McHugh Uncovers the Revolutionary Core of Early Women’s Periodicals
June 15, 2022  By Jess McHugh
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How a Single Cookbook Shaped What It Meant to Be an “American Woman”

Jess McHugh on the Complicated Legacy of Betty Crocker
June 2, 2021  By Jess McHugh
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