More than 75 women served as war correspondents in the Vietnam War, covering every aspect of the war from human interest to combat. They worked for major news media and won major journalism awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. Several women reporters were wounded in combat, three were taken prisoner, and two were killed. Yet, with few exceptions, they are not mentioned in studies of the media in Vietnam. This book chronicles their contribution from 1961 until 1975, with excerpts from the work of Dickey Chapelle, Beverly Deepe, Frances Fitzgerald, Martha Gellhorn, Georgie Anne Geyer, Marguerite Higgins, Jurate Kazickas, Mary McCarthy, Patches (Helen) Musgrove, Elizabeth Pond, Philippa Schuyler, and Kate Webb.
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... Elwood-Akers skillfully weaves all of this together into a story worth telling... admirable and will be useful in courses on women in journalism history. (Karen List, Journalism History )
"Primarily for libraries with large Vietnam War/women's studies collections.|s A.O. Edmonds" (Choice )
"Primarily for libraries with large Vietnam War/women's studies collections.|s A.O. Edmonds" (Choice )
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Virginia Elwood-Akers (BA, English, UCLA; MA, journalism, California State University, Northridge; MLS, University of Oregon) is a librarian at California State University, Northridge. She is a bibliographer and reference specialist in the fields of mass communication and women's studies. She has previously published a bibliographic article on women in the media and an article on Clara Foltz, California's first woman lawyer. This is her first book, the result of nearly ten years of research.
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