The 'awkward' squad
British women foreign correspondents during the interwar years
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4820203 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Lonsdale (0000-0002-4058-7681, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 387-407 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-16 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612025.2021.1925429 |
| OpenAlex | W3153363070 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
During the interwar years, gendered inequalities in newspaper newsrooms and social prejudice against ‘mobile’ women combined to force women who wanted to work as foreign correspondents to seek alternative routes to raising their voices on international affairs. Women’s reportage can be found in a range of platforms from the mainstream press to early journals of humanitarian communication and literary magazines. When women reported for major newspapers they were often precariously freelance and the gendered nature of their treatment by newspaper hierarchies emphasised their, and all women’s, outsider status when it came to international politics. Women's international journalism, often rooted in the humanitarian tradition, concentrated on telling the lives of minor characters and ordinary people, and offers insights into individual human suffering at a time of great international anxiety. Their writing, often anonymous or in overlooked niche publications, represents a missing actor on public opinion at this critical time
Journalism · Mainstream · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · Law · Media Studies and Communication · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |