An unladylike profession : American women war correspondents in World War I / Chris Dubbs ; foreword by Judy Woodruff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dubbs, Chris (Military historian), author.

Contributor:

Woodruff, Judy, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Press coverage--United States.

World War, 1914-1918.

Women war correspondents--United States--Biography.

Women war correspondents.

Women journalists--United States--Biography.

Women journalists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : Potomac Books, [2020]

Summary:

When World War I began, war reporting was a thoroughly masculine bastion of journalism. But that did not stop dozens of women reporters from stepping into the breach, defying gender norms and official restrictions to establish roles for themselves—and to write new kinds of narratives about women and war. Chris Dubbs tells the fascinating stories of Edith Wharton, Nellie Bly, and more than thirty other American women who worked as war reporters. As Dubbs shows, stories by these journalists brought in women from the periphery of war and made them active participants—fully engaged and equally heroic, if bearing different burdens and making different sacrifices. Women journalists traveled from belligerent capitals to the front lines to report on the conflict. But their experiences also brought them into contact with social transformations, political unrest, labor conditions, campaigns for women's rights, and the rise of revolutionary socialism. An eye-opening look at women's war reporting, An Unladylike Profession is a portrait of a sisterhood from the guns of August to the corridors of Versailles.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-64012-319-9