| Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists Contributor(s): Mills, Eleanor (Editor), Wolf, Naomi (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0786716673 ISBN-13: 9780786716678 Publisher: Seal Press (CA) OUR PRICE: $23.74 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2005 Annotation: Since their emergence as a journalistic force after the world wars, women have continued to break new ground in newspapers and magazines, redefining the world as we see it as well as the craft as it applied. Many of the pieces in "Journalistas feel almost unsettlingly relevant today -- the conclusions Emma "Red" Goldman drew in her 1916, "the Social Aspects of Birth Control," Maddy Vegtel's 1930s article about becoming pregnant at forty, and Eleanor Roosevelt's call for greater tolerance after America's race riots in 1943. Many have pushed other limits: Naomi Wolf's "Beauty Myth brought feminism to a new generation; Helen Fielding's "Bridget Jones caused a media revolution: Ruth Picardie's unflinchingly honest column about living with cancer in 1997 brought a wave of British candor and a host of imitators; and when two iconic women come face to face, we have at one end, Dorothy Parker on Isadora Duncan (1928), and at the other, Julie Burchill on Margaret Thatcher (2004). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism - Literary Collections - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 820.809 |
| Physical Information: 1.02" H x 5.74" W x 9.41" (1.04 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Collections of journalism consistently fail to represent the contribution made by female journalists to newspapers and magazines, as if political analysis and tales of flak-jacketed derring-do are the only truly valid forms of the discipline. And yet women make up half of readers, and more than half of newspaper and magazine staff. By bringing together the best - the most influential, incisive, controversial, affecting, entertaining - pieces of journalism written by women, this anthology redresses this imbalance. Organized by theme, it also gives a sense of the massive changes that have taken place in women's lives since the beginning of the suffragette movement. Above all, this is a collection of superlative writing from the best women in the business, selected by the Sunday Times's most senior female editor. |