Threshold Modernism

Evans, Elizabeth F.

doi:10.1017/9781108632812

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“…39 Elizabeth F. Evans argues that women were perceived to be inviting self-damage and danger by leaving the home and going into public places like city streets, railway carriages and hotels. 40 The woman foreign correspondent, who perforce, had to travel, and stay in hotels or even tents and other unsavoury lodgings, thus deliberately placed herself in a category of woman which, even after the First World War, was looked on with disapproval. As well as being mobile, many of the women in this study were also solitary, compounding their suspiciousness: the solitary woman's vulnerability and thus suspected sexual availability and untrustworthiness would suggest she was either destitute, a prostitute, or a spy.…”

Section: Nineteenth and Early-twentieth Century Women's Reporting On War And Foreign Affairsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The ‘awkward’ squad: British women foreign correspondents during the interwar years

Lonsdale

2021

Women's History Review

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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.

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Section: Nineteenth and Early-twentieth Century Women's Reporting On War And Foreign Affairsmentioning

confidence: 99%