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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, women have continued to break new
ground in newspapers and magazines, redefining the world as we see
it. Many of the pieces here feel almost unsettlingly relevant today
-- the conclusions Emma 'Red' Goldman drew in her 1916 The social
aspects of birth control, Maddy Vegtel's 1930s article about
becoming pregnant at 40. Eleanor Roosevelt's call for greater
tolerance after America's race riots in 1943. new generation; Helen
Fielding's Bridget Jones caused a media revolution; Ruth Picardie's
unflinchingly honest column about living with cancer in 1997
brought a wave of British candour and a host of imitators; and when
two iconic women come face to face we have at one end Dorothy
Parker on Isadora Duncan (1928) and at the other Julie Burchill on
Margaret Thatcher (2004). This collection of superlative writing,
selected by the Sunday Times's most senior female editor, brings
together the most influential, incisive, controversial, affecting
and entertaining pieces of journalism by the best women in the
business.
Since their emergence as a journalistic force after the world wars,
women have continued to break new ground in newspapers and
magazines, redefining the world as we see it as well as the craft
as it applied. Many of the pieces in "Journalistas feel almost
unsettlingly relevant today -- the conclusions Emma "Red" Goldman
drew in her 1916, "the Social Aspects of Birth Control," Maddy
Vegtel's 1930s article about becoming pregnant at forty, and
Eleanor Roosevelt's call for greater tolerance after America's race
riots in 1943. Many have pushed other limits: Naomi Wolf's "Beauty
Myth brought feminism to a new generation; Helen Fielding's
"Bridget Jones caused a media revolution: Ruth Picardie's
unflinchingly honest column about living with cancer in 1997
brought a wave of British candor and a host of imitators; and when
two iconic women come face to face, we have at one end, Dorothy
Parker on Isadora Duncan (1928), and at the other, Julie Burchill
on Margaret Thatcher (2004).
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