An Unladylike Profession by Chris Dubbs, Judy Woodruff - 9781640126794

Name: An Unladylike Profession by Chris Dubbs, Judy Woodruff - 9781640126794
Brand: Potomac Books Inc

Potomac Books Inc

An Unladylike ProfessionAmerican Women War Correspondents in World War I\nAuthor(s): Chris Dubbs, Judy Woodruff\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Potomac Books Inc, United States\nImprint: Potomac Books Inc\nISBN-13: 9781640126794, 978-1640126794\nSynopsis\nAn eye-opening look at womens war reporting, An Unladylike Profession is a portrait of a sisterhood from the guns of August to the corridors of Versailles.\n\nWhen 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.\n 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 engag.