Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs
100 years of the best Journalism by women
$42.61
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
20 May 2009
Summary
Many female journalists came to the fore during the first and second world wars, and their perspective was very different to that of their male peers, who were reporting from the field. Specifically, they often wrote about war from the perspective of those left at home, struggling to keep the household afloat. And with ‘How it feels to be forcibly fed’ (1914) by Djuna Barnes, one of the world’s very first experiential, or ‘gonzo’ journalists, came a new age of reporting.
Since then, w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781845291655 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1845291654 |
| Author: | Eleanor Mills, Naomi Wolf |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 20 May 2009 |
| Weight: | 460g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 152mm x 32mm |
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About The Author
Eleanor Mills
Eleanor Mills is the editor of the News Review section of the Sunday Times, the UK’s most popular broadsheet. She trained to be a journalist on the Guardian and Observer where she was the only woman trainee in the newsroom. She then moved to the Daily Telegraph where she became the youngest features editor in the paper’s history, before joining the Sunday Times in 1998.
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