Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-260) and index.
Contents:
Women printers and publishers in colonial America -- Anne Newport Royall -- Sarah Josephina Buell Hale -- Margaret Fuller Ossoli -- Sara Payson Willis Parton (Fanny Fern) -- Struggle for women's suffrage -- Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm -- Amelia Jenks Bloomer -- Jane Cunningham Croly (Jennie June) -- Miriam (Frank) Florence Folline Leslie -- Victoria C. Woodhull -- Kate Field -- Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson -- Gertrude Bustill Mossell (N.F. Mossell) -- Ida Minerva Tarbell -- Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (Dorothy Dix) -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- African-American women's voices in journalism -- Elizabeth Cochrane (Nellie Bly) -- Rheta Childe Dorr -- Anne O'Hare McCormick -- Gossip mongers: Tellers of the stars' secrets -- Helen Rogers Reid -- Emma Bugbee -- Judith Cary Waller -- Sigrid Lillian Schultz -- Dorothy Thompson -- Mary Margaret McBride (Martha Deane) -- Clementine Haskin Paddleford -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Margaret Cousins -- Dorothy Mae Kilgallen -- Katherine Meyer Graham -- Mary McGrory -- Georgette (Dickey) Meyer Chapelle -- Esther Pauline (Eppie) Lederer (Anne Landers) and Pauline Esther (Popo) Phillips (Abigail Van Buren) -- Marguerite Higgins -- Helen Gurley Brown -- Liz Smith -- Erma Bombeck -- Barbara Walters -- Georgie Anne Geyer -- Second wave: from women's rights to women's liberation to human rights -- Gloria Steinem -- Cokie Roberts -- Charlayne Hunter-Gault -- Annie Leibovitz -- Anna Quindlen -- Christiane Amanpour -- Appendix: Sixty-four other extraordinary women journalists.
Summary:
Profiles the life and work of notable women journalists, including Sarah Hale, Margaret Fuller, and Nellie Bly.
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