Título:
Sensational : the hidden history of America's "girl stunt reporters" / Kim Todd.
ISBN:
9780062843616
Autor personal:
Edición:
First edition.
Información de publicación:
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
©2021
Descripción física:
xii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contenido:
Prologue: The case of the girl reporter, 1888 -- Voyaging out (1885-1890). Trials of a working girl, 1885-1887 ; Opportunity in disguise, 1887 ; Detective for the people, 1888 ; Hunger for trouble, 1888 ; Reckoning with the evil of the age, 1888 ; New territory, 1889-1890 -- Swashbuckling (1890-1896). Under the Gold Dome, 1890-1891 ; Exercising judgment, 1892 ; A place to speak freely, 1892 ; Guilt and innocence, 1892-1893 ; Across the Atlantic, 1893-1894 ; Girl no more, 1894-1895 ; Full speed ahead, 1895-1896 -- Facing the storm (1896-present). A smear of yellow, 1896-1897 ; All together in New Bedford, 1898 ; Reversal of fortune, 1898-1912 ; In the wake, 1898-1900 ; Vanishing ink, 1900-present ; Anonymous sources, present ; A collection of endings, 1899-1922.
Síntesis:
Presents a social history of women journalists of the Gilded Age who went undercover to champion women's rights and expose corruption and abuse in America.
In the waning years of the nineteenth century women journalists across the United States risked reputation and their own safety to expose the hazardous conditions under which many Americans lived and worked. They stole into sewing factories to report on child labor, fainted in the streets to test public hospital treatment, posed as lobbyists to reveal corrupt politicians. Todd shows how these "girl stunt reporters" changed laws, helped launch a labor movement, championed women's rights, and redefined journalism for the modern age. -- Adapted from jacket.
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on1244546167
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