Award-Winning Professor Sarah Fishman Pens New Biography of Women Journalists in France

The Department of History celebrates the release in paperback of Dr. Sarah Fishman’s groundbreaking study, Bridges to Feminism: Marcelle Auclair, Marcelle Ségal, and Women’s Magazines in Twentieth-Century France. Oxford University Press describes the book as an important new work that brings to life “intimate biographies of the women who laid the foundation for the modern advice column in France.” Focusing on women journalists Marcelle Auclair and Marcelle Ségal in the postwar period, Dr. Fishman shows how “Auclair at Marie-Claire and Ségal at Elle Magazine inspired fierce reader loyalty as they dialogued with their readers about their lives as women.” Dr. Fishman shared this picture from her recent research trip to France, where she finished her new book.