Summary
This book traces how far women have come over the past century, both sociologically and psychologically, and should be required reading for female teenagers who take certain privileges for granted.
It is a remarkable collection of writing by women journalists, edited by Eleanor Mills (editor of the London Sunday Times' News Review) and Kira Cochrane. It is journalism that reads like literature and takes the reader from the cold, searing prose of Martha Gellhorn on the horrors of the Dachau death camp of World War II, to how Christina Lamb covers the 21st-century world for the Sunday Times while struggling with the mother's guilt that comes from being apart from her two-year-old son.See the full content of this document
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Writing Their Way to Equality
These writings roam the emotional as well as the demographic spectrum. A woman like Marie Colvig, an English reporter who lost an eye in her coverage of war, contributes a profile of Yasser Arafat - gripping because of...
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