Journalistas 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists

by Mills, Eleanor; Wolf, Naomi

• ISBN13: 9780786716678
• ISBN10: 0786716673
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-13
• Publisher: Seal Press

Summary

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).

Author Biography

Eleanor Mills is a Senior Editor at the Sunday Times

Table of Contents

Introduction
'The promoters of the war mania'	p. 3
Report from the Spanish Civil War	p. 9
On surviving the London Blitz	p. 11
'Dachau'	p. 13
On the American invasion of Inchon, Korea	p. 19
'Report from Vietnam : I. the home program'	p. 22
'Mountainsides of hell'	p. 38
'Regarding the torture of others'	p. 42
'The rebel on the hearth'	p. 55
'Mother-worship'	p. 57
'Forty - when the baby was born'	p. 62
'I sing while I cook'	p. 66
'My day'	p. 70
'Letter writing in wartime'	p. 72
'Learning to be a widow'	p. 75
'Notes from a maternity ward'	p. 78
'Before I say goodbye'	p. 81
'AmandaBright@home'	p. 83
'My brave, wounded new world'	p. 88
'Thank God I let my baby live'	p. 92
'Ten days in a madhouse'	p. 99
'The war in Passaic'	p. 106
'That summer I left childhood was white'	p. 110
'The English aristocracy'	p. 114
'A Watergate diary'	p. 117
'The right to life : what can the white man ... say to the black woman?'	p. 121
Report on the fall of the Berlin Wall	p. 125
'Hillary's husband re-elected : the Clinton marriage of politics and power'	p. 128
'Nickel-and-dimed : on (not) getting by in America'	p. 136
'Putting her best face on a murky business'	p. 144
'Everybody wins, and all must have prizes'	p. 148
'The Arafat I knew'	p. 152
'How it feels to be forcibly fed'	p. 163
'Human suffrage'	p. 167
'Should married women work?'	p. 171
'Woman talking to men'	p. 175
'The BITCH manifesto'	p. 178
'Why I want a wife'	p. 182
'The women at Houston'	p. 184
'The post-feminist woman - is she perhaps more oppressed than ever?'	p. 187
'The feminine mystique'	p. 192
'Sex and the sisters'	p. 195
'My double life : Kalashnikovs and cupcakes'	p. 203
'Justice at night'	p. 211
On the Nuremburg trials	p. 217
'Torture in Chile'	p. 223
'Trouble in the boys' club'	p. 229
'Can I get a witness?'	p. 235
'On the murder of James Bulger'	p. 240
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