Australian Women War Reporters

Author : Jeannine Baker
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742242156

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Australian Women War Reporters by Jeannine Baker Pdf

This is the hidden story of Australian and New Zealand women war reporters who fought for equality with their male colleagues and filed stories from the main conflicts of the twentieth century. In Australian Women War Reporters, Jeannine Baker provides a much-needed account of the pioneering women who reported from the biggest conflicts of the twentieth century. Two women covered the South African War at the turn of the century, and Louise Mack witnessed the fall of Antwerp in 1914. Others such Anne Matheson, Lorraine Stumm and Kate Webb wrote about momentous events including the rise of Nazism, the liberation of the concentration camps, the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the Cold War conflicts in Korea and Southeast Asia. These women carved a path for new generations of female foreign correspondents who have built upon their legacy. Jeannine Baker deftly draws out the links between the experiences of these women and the contemporary realities faced by women journalists of war, including Monica Attard and Ginny Stein, allowing us to see both in a new light.

Author : Jeannine Ann Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : War correspondents
ISBN : OCLC:892126421

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Beyond the 'woman's Angle' by Jeannine Ann Baker Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Becker
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781743821664

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You Don’t Belong Here by Elizabeth Becker Pdf

The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the barriers to women covering war Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade. At a time when women were considered unfit to be foreign reporters, Frankie, Catherine and Kate challenged the rules imposed on them by the military, ignored the belittlement of their male peers, and ultimately altered the craft of war reportage for generations. In You Don’t Belong Here, Elizabeth Becker uses these women’s work and lives to illuminate the Vietnam War from the 1965 American buildup, the expansion into Cambodia, and the American defeat and its aftermath. Arriving herself in the last years of the war, Becker writes as a historian and a witness of the times. What emerges is an unforgettable story of three journalists forging their place in a land of men, often at great personal sacrifice. Deeply reported and filled with personal letters, interviews, and profound insight, You Don’t Belong Here fills a void in the history of women and of war. ‘A riveting read with much to say about the nature of war and the different ways men and women correspondents cover it. Frank, fast-paced, often enraging, You Don’t Belong Here speaks to the distance travelled and the journey still ahead.’ —Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent ‘Riveting, powerful and transformative, Elizabeth Becker’s You Don’t Belong Here tells the stories of three astonishing women. This is a timely and brilliant work from one of our most extraordinary war correspondents.’ —Madeleine Thien, Booker Prize finalist and author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing

Author : Louise Mack
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781398817692

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A Woman's Experiences in the Great War by Louise Mack Pdf

'In my mind's eye, I could follow those peasants, fleeing, fleeing, ever fleeing from one village to another, from one town to another, hunted and followed by the cruel menace of War.' When the German Army invaded Belgium in 1914, Louise Mack set off to cover the war as a reporter for The Daily Mail. She soon found herself deeply embedded in the conflict and forced to make her way through Northern Europe and find a way back to safety. Along the way, she recorded the true stories of adversity faced by the civilian populations of Europe and in so doing became the world's first female war correspondent. Written with excruciating vividness and genuine emotion, Mack's account provides a unique perspective on the conflict that engulfed Europe.

Author : Victoria Purman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 036935382X

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The Women's Pages by Victoria Purman Pdf

From the bestselling author of The Land Girls comes a beautifully realised novel that speaks to the true history and real experiences of post-war Australian women. Sydney 1945 The war is over, the fight begins. The war is over and so are the jobs (and freedoms) of tens of thousands of Australian women. The armaments factories are making washing machines instead of bullets and war correspondent Tilly Galloway has hung up her uniform and been forced to work on the women's pages of her newspaper - the only job available to her - where she struggles to write advice on fashion and make-up. As Sydney swells with returning servicemen and the city bustles back to post-war life, Tilly finds her world is anything but normal. As she desperately waits for word of her prisoner-of-war husband, she begins to research stories about the lives of the underpaid and overworked women who live in her own city. Those whose war service has been overlooked; the freedom and independence of their war lives lost to them. Meanwhile Tilly's waterside worker father is on strike, and her best friend Mary is struggling to cope with the stranger her own husband has become since being liberated from Changi a broken man. As strikes rip the country apart and the news from abroad causes despair, matters build to a heart-rending crescendo. Tilly realises that for her the war may have ended, but the fight is just beginning...

Author : Paul McGeough
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1741142199

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In Baghdad by Paul McGeough Pdf

A classic, engrossing war correspondent's story by the only Australian journalist who was in Baghdad for the duration of the war.

Author : Fay Anderson,Richard Trembath
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0522860222

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Witnesses To War by Fay Anderson,Richard Trembath Pdf

Witnesses to War is a landmark history of Australian war journalism covering the regional conflicts of the nineteenth century to the major conflicts of the twentieth: World War I, World War II, Vietnam and Bosnia through to recent and ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Fay Anderson and Richard Trembath look at how journalists reported the horrors and politics of war, the rise of the celebrity journalist, issues of censorship and the ethics of 'embedding'. Interviews with over 40 leading journalists and photographers reveal the challenges of covering wars and the impact of the violence they witness, the fear and exhilaration, the regrets and successes, the private costs and personal dangers. Witnesses to War examines issues with continued and contemporary relevance, including the genesis of the Anzac ideal and its continued use; the representation of enemy and race and how technology has changed the nature of conflict reporting.

Author : Lorraine Stumm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : War correspondents
ISBN : 0957779453

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I Saw Too Much by Lorraine Stumm Pdf

At the age of 25, Lorraine Stumm went to Singapore to join her airman husband and obtained a job on the Malaya Tribune as a news reporter. War had been declared and Singapore was deemed impregnable. On the outbreak of war with Japan, she was asked by the London Daily Mirror to cover the war in the Pacific for them. Evacuated from Singapore just before it fell to the Japanese, she joined General MacArthur's headquarters and from 1941 until the surrender of Japan, she reported the war as Australia's first accredited woman war correspondent. Despite the hard conditions and discriminations from some male colleagues, she kept the news flowing. In this absorbing personal account, she writes in the same style as she reported the events and conditions she experienced and the people she met during those tumultuous years of World War II.

Author : Prue Torney-Parlicki
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Asia
ISBN : 0868405302

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Somewhere in Asia by Prue Torney-Parlicki Pdf

From 1941 to 1975, as a series of military conflicts gripped Asia and the Pacific, Australian journalism was dominated by war reporting from the region. Torney-Parlicki (history, U. of Melbourne) argues that the reporting went beyond the usual discussion of military strategy and, in an important way.

Author : Melanie Oppenheimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1877007285

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Australian Women and War by Melanie Oppenheimer Pdf

Sourced from Oppenheimer's own research and archival material from the Australian War Memorial, Australian Red Cross archives and State Libraries, Australian Women and War contains accounts of women such as Nursing Sister Nellie Gould in the Boer War and Angela Rhodes, the first Australian Military female air traffic controller to serve in Baghdad during the second Gulf War. The book also contains little known accounts of women such as Nurse Ethel Gillingham, one of the only Australian women to be a POW in WWI, and the group of Australian teachers sent to South Africa during the Boer War to work in the internment (concentration) camps.

Author : Zahra Hankir
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780525505204

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Our Women on the Ground by Zahra Hankir Pdf

Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour “A stirring, provocative and well-made new anthology . . . that rewrites the hoary rules of the foreign correspondent playbook, deactivating the old clichés.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times A growing number of intrepid Arab and Middle Eastern sahafiyat—female journalists—are working tirelessly to shape nuanced narratives about their changing homelands, often risking their lives on the front lines of war. From sexual harassment on the streets of Cairo to the difficulty of traveling without a male relative in Yemen, their challenges are unique—as are their advantages, such as being able to speak candidly with other women at a Syrian medical clinic or with men on Whatsapp who will go on to become ISIS fighters, rebels, or pro-regime soldiers. In Our Women on the Ground, nineteen of these women tell us, in their own words, about what it’s like to report on conflicts that (quite literally) hit close to home. Their daring and heartfelt stories, told here for the first time, shatter stereotypes about the region’s women and provide an urgently needed perspective on a part of the world that is frequently misunderstood. INCLUDING ESSAYS BY: Donna Abu-Nasr, Aida Alami, Hannah Allam, Jane Arraf, Lina Attalah, Nada Bakri, Shamael Elnoor, Zaina Erhaim, Asmaa al-Ghoul, Hind Hassan, Eman Helal, Zeina Karam, Roula Khalaf, Nour Malas, Hwaida Saad, Amira Al-Sharif, Heba Shibani, Lina Sinjab, and Natacha Yazbeck

Author : Lilya Wagner
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCAL:B4956385

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Women War Correspondents of World War II by Lilya Wagner Pdf

Stringer, Ann: Carpenter, Iris: Cowan, Ruth.

Author : Penny Colman
Publisher : Crown Books For Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0517800756

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Where the Action was by Penny Colman Pdf

During World War II, 127 women managed to obtain official accreditation from the U.S. War Department as war correspondents. In spite of U.S. military regulations that forbade women to cover combat, Martha Gellhorn, Margaret Bourke-White, Lee Miller, and many others found ways to get “where the action was.” Their tenacity, bravery, and fresh approach to reporting war news broke the gender barrier and opened the way for women journalists of today. This is the exciting story of what they did and how they did it—flying bombing missions, taking photographs inside Buchenwald, stowing away on D day hospital ships, dodging bullets on Iwo Jima, and much more. Penny Colman’s authoritative and exciting text also functions as an overview of the war and is profusely illustrated with up-front photos. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Carolin Emcke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691186887

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Echoes of Violence by Carolin Emcke Pdf

"Nobody I ever met on my assignments . . . asked me for direct, practical help. . . . But over and over again people have asked me: 'Will you write this down?' "--Echoes of Violence ? Echoes of Violence is an award-winning collection of personal letters to friends from a foreign correspondent who is trying to understand what she witnessed during the iconic human disasters of our time--in Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and New York City on September 11th, among many other places. Originally addressing only a small group of friends, Carolin Emcke started the first letter after returning from Kosovo, where she saw the aftermath of ethnic cleansing in 1999. She began writing to overcome her speechlessness about the horrors of war and her own sense of failure as a reporter. Eventually, writing a letter became a ritual Emcke performed following her return from each nightmare she experienced. First published in 2004 to great acclaim, Echoes of Violence in 2005 was named German political book of the year and was a finalist for the international Lettre-Ulysses award for the art of reportage. Combining narrative with philosophic reflection, Emcke describes wars and human rights abuses around the world--the suffering of civilians caught between warring factions in Colombia, the heartbreaking plight of homeless orphans in Romania, and the near-slavery of garment workers in Nicaragua. Freed in the letters from journalistic conventions that would obscure her presence as a witness, Emcke probes the abyss of violence and explores the scars it leaves on landscapes external and internal.

Author : Elizabeth Becker
Publisher : Public Affairs
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 154176823X

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You Don't Belong Here by Elizabeth Becker Pdf

The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war. Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French dare devil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade. At a time when women were considered unfit to be foreign reporters, Frankie, Catherine and Kate paid their own way to war, arrived without jobs, challenged the rules imposed on them by the military, ignored the belittlement and resentment of their male peers and found new ways to explain the war through the people who lived through it. In You Don't Belong Here, Elizabeth Becker uses these women's work and lives to illuminate the Vietnam War from the 1965 American buildup, through the Tet Offensive, the expansion into Cambodia, the American defeat and its aftermath. Arriving herself in the last years of the war, Elizabeth writes as an historian and a witness to what these women accomplished. What emerges is an unforgettable story of three journalists forging their place in a land of men, often at great personal sacrifice, and forever altering the craft of war reportage for generations. Deeply reported and filled with personal letters, interviews, and profound insight, You Don't Belong Here fills a void in the history of women and of war.