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Woman War Correspondent, the U.S. Military, and the Press

1846 - 1947
  • ISBN-13: 9781498539272
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
  • By Carolyn M. Edy
  • Price: AUD $224.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 13/02/2017
  • Format: Hardback 192 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: General studies [GTG]
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Honorable Mention recipient for the American Journalism Historians Association Book of the Year Award, this book outlines the rich history of more than 250 women who worked as war correspondents up through World War II, while demonstrating the ways in which the press and the military both promoted and prevented their access to war. Despite the continued presence of individual female war correspondents in news accounts, if not always in war zones, it was not until 1944 that the military recognized these individuals as a group and began formally considering sex as a factor for recruiting and accrediting war correspondents. This group identity created obstacles for women who had previously worked alongside men as "war correspondents," while creating opportunities for many women whom the military recruited to cover woman's angle news as "women war correspondents." This book also reveals the ways the military and the press, as well as women themselves, constructed the concepts of "woman war correspondent" and "war correspondent" and how these concepts helped and hindered the work of all war correspondents even as they challenged and ultimately expanded the public's understanding of war and of women.
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: "A Womanly View of War," 1846-1910 Chapter 3: "Conditions of Acceptance," 1911-1939 Chapter 4: "To Play Men's Rules," 1940-1942 Chapter 5: "Women's Stuff and the Little Stories," 1942-1943 Chapter 6: "As Epitomes of All the Rest," 1943-1944 Chapter 7: "A Matter of Special Facility," 1944 Chapter 8: "Outstanding and Conspicuous Service," 1945 Chapter 9: "Persona Non Grata," 1945 and Beyond Appendix 1: American Women War Correspondents during World War I Appendix 2: American Women War Correspondents during World War II
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