Ebook: Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 years of the best journalism by women

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. & U & & /U & Since then, women have continued to break new ground in newspapers and magazines, redefining the world as we see i.;Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction -- Naomi Wolf; War; Emma Goldman; Nancy Cunard; Helen Kirkpatrick; Martha Gellhorn; Marguerite Higgins; Mary Mccarthy; Julie FLINT; Susan Sontag; Home & Family; Evelyn Sharp; Crystal EASTMAN; Maddy Vegtel; Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; Eleanor Roosevelt; Daphne Du Maurier; Mary Stott; Angela Carter; Ruth Picardie; Danielle Crittenden; Sarah Baxter; India Knight; Politics, Race & Society; Nellie Bly; Mary Heaton Vorse; Audre Lorde; Nancy Mitford; Elizabeth Drew; Alice Walker; Ann Leslie; Erica Jong; Barbara Ehrenreich.