Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

Featured Items

Journalists shape perceptions and attitudes.

Model Women of the Press: Gender, Politics, and Women's Professional Journalism, 1850–1880

Author

Teja Varma Pusapati

Description

Focuses on England.

Year

2024

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

Author

Chris Dubbs

Description

Profiles more than 30 reporters.

Year

2020

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism

Author

Brooke Kroeger

Description

Covers 1840 to the present.

Year

2023

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

Author

Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

Description

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey document their investigative reporting on film director Harvey Weinstein's history of sexual assault and how his behavior was covered up, the beginnings of the #MeToo movement, and their impact on psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford's decision to testify at Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination hearing.

Year

2019

Writing and Rewriting the Reich: Women Journalists in the Nazi and Post-war Press

Author

Deborah Barton

Description

Based on data on more than 1500 journalists from 1933 to 1955.

Year

2023

The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II

Author

Judith Mackrell

Description

Focuses on Virginia Cowles, Martha Gellhorn, Clare Hollingworth, Helen Kirkpatrick, Lee Miller, and Sigrid Schultz.

Year

2021

Gender, Generation, and Journalism in France, 1910–1940

Author

Mary Lynn Stewart

Description

Focuses on 10 women based in Paris.

Year

2018

Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman

Author

Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert

Description

First biography of the journalist and author of the syndicated column "Listen World!"—one of the most popular in the United States with 20 million readers—who used her platform for campaigns against anti-Semitism, capital punishment, racism, and sexism.

Year

2022

A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press

Author

Ayelet Brinn

Description

Examines the influence of women as creators and audiences of newspaper content.

Year

2023

Susan, Linda, Nina, and Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR

Author

Lisa Napoli

Description

Based on interviews and archival research.

Year

2021