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...Women in Journalism" by Maurine Beasley and Sheila Gibbons Both Maurine Beasley and Sheila Gibbons carry substantial experience in the documentation of the roles played by women during the late 19th and throughout the 20th centuries. Beasley's "specialty" has been in the area of journalism while Gibbons has researched women in history, in general, since 1870. Their collaboration on "Taking Their Place" combines a wide range of historical fact that establishes the backdrop by which early female journalists were forced to define themselves by, as well as the repressive cultural and professional situations the vast majority of them were forced to face. "Taking Their Place" also provides a very real sense of the misogyny, hypocrisy, and sexual discrimination female journalists encountered on nearly a daily basis. Beasley and Gibbons have produced a thoroughly-researched and well-written book, which gives attention not only to the more familiar names in journalism but also to the women whose pioneering work in journalism has led to the gradual and sometimes painfully slow acceptance of women into what has always been considered a male field. There are a lot of names that...