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Undaunted, how women changed American journalism, Brooke Kroeger

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-538) and index

contains biographical information

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Undaunted

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Brooke Kroeger

how women changed American journalism

Undaunted is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism’s most valued work. From Margaret Fuller’s improbable success to the highly paid reporters of the mid-nineteenth century to the breakthrough investigative triumphs of Nellie Bly, Ida Tarbell, and Ida B. Wells, Brooke Kroeger examines the lives of the best-remembered and long-forgotten woman journalists. She explores the careers of standout woman reporters who covered the major news stories and every conflict at home and abroad since before the Civil War, and she celebrates those exceptional careers up to the present, including those of Martha Gellhorn, Rachel Carson, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Cokie Roberts, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. As Kroeger chronicles the lives of journalists and newsroom leaders in every medium, a larger story develops: the nearly two-centuries-old struggle for women’s rights. Here as well is the collective fight for equity from the gentle stirrings of the late 1800s through the legal battles of the 1970s to the #MeToo movement and today’s racial and gender disparities. Undaunted unveils the huge and singular impact women have had on a vital profession still dominated by men

The Asterisk -- The She Lot -- The Break Out -- From Cuba to the Far East -- New Thought -- Janus-faced -- Practice War -- Depressionistas -- Home Front -- Sidebars -- Bridges -- Foment -- Supernovas -- Vietnam -- Collective Action -- Star Power -- Not Quite -- Power Coupling -- Moving Up -- Moving On -- Assessment -- The More Things Change -- Epilogue: #MeToo, You