Undaunted how women changed American journalism
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, Kroeger examines the lives of the best-remembered-- and many long-forgotten-- woman journalists. She explores...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Part one: First wave, 1840s-1880s. The asterisk
- The she lot
- Part two: Experts, stunts, sobs, front pages, and Amazons, 1880s-1920s. The breakout
- From Cuba to the Far East
- New thought
- Janus-faced
- Part three: Global crises, 1930s-1940s. Practice war
- Depressionistas
- Home front
- Sidebars
- Part four: Advances and setbacks, 1950s-1970s. Bridges
- Foment
- Supernovas
- Vietnam
- Collective action
- Star Power
- Part five: Realignment, 1980s-1990s. Not quite
- Power coupling
- Moving up
- Moving on
- Part six: State of play, 2000s-early 2020s. Assessment
- The more things change
- Epilogue: #MeToo, you, too.
