“Closer To a Pet.” How Women Were Viewed by 19th-Century America
Stephanie Gorton on the Systematic Sexism That Inspired American Women to Fight Back
November 26, 2024
By Stephanie Gorton
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Stephanie Gorton
Stephanie Gorton is the author of Citizen Reporters: S. S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine that Rewrote America (2020), a finalist for the Sperber Prize for journalism biography, and The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry that Brought Birth Control to America (2024). Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and Paris Review Daily, among other publications. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Logan Nonfiction Program at the Carey Institute for Global Good and the Massachusetts Historical Society. Lebanese-American by birth, she lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
When America’s Most Famous Monthly Took on Its Most Famous Tycoon
Journalist Ida Tarbell Went Up Against Rockefeller Himself
February 27, 2020
By Stephanie Gorton
