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Women's Use of Public Relations for Progressive-Era Reform: Rousing the Conscience of a Nation Edited by Dulcie Murdock Straughan Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2007, 233 pp. Reviewed by Janet Rice McCoy Morehead State University

Morehead State University Campaigns to exclusively improve the lives of African Americans included anti-lynching and racial uplift. Poised at the intersection ofwomen's history and public relations Edited by Dulcie Murdock Straughan history, this book challenges the traditional Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen meta-narratives within Press, 2007, 233 pp. both disciplines. Before the advent of"women's history" as a distinct discipline, historians tended to focus on powerful men, the lands they ruled, and the wars they fought. Likewise, as Karla K. Gower points out in the preface, the evolution of public relations is typically described as a linear process dominated by men in corporate boardrooms and government service. This book demonstrates that women played a significant role in the development ofpublic relations, and that women successfully used public relations tactics before Ivy Lee and Edward Bemays hung out their shingles and laid claim to the profession. The exploration of interrelationships between various reform movements is an interesting facet ofthis collection. The essay on Margaret Sanger explores how she had one foot in radical agitation and another in progressive Women's Use of Public Relations for ProgressiveEra Reform: Rousing the Conscience of a Nation