An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I

by Chris Dubbs

Book Overview

When World War I began, war reporting was a thoroughly masculine bastion of journalism. But that did not stop dozens of women reporters from stepping into the breach, defying gender norms and official restrictions to establish roles for themselves--and to write new kinds of narratives about women and war.

Chris Dubbs tells the fascinating stories of Edith Wharton, Nellie Bly, and more than thirty other American women who worked as war reporters...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640123067
• ISBN13: 9781640123069
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"