Jeannine Baker
Autor(a) de Australian women war reporters : Boer War to Vietnam
About the Author
Jeannine Baker deftly draws out the links between the experiences of these women and the contemporary realities faced by women journalists of war. This book celebrates the significant contribution made by women reporters who have for too long been overlooked.
Obras de Jeannine Baker
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 1
- Membros
- 11
- Popularidade
- #857,862
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 5
Then, to my surprise, the name of Louise Mack cropped up again in Sue’s Monday Musings at Whispering Gums! As Sue says, Louise Mack is hardly a household name so this is synchronicity indeed. Well, like many bloggers Sue is tackling her TBR, and her first book of 2017 is a novel by this same Louise Mack (1870-1935). Sue’s introduction to this enterprising woman is full of all sorts of interesting snippets, but Jeannine Baker’s profile is a bit different because her focus is on the experiences of Australian women war reporters during World War II. Baker’s PhD – which won the Dennis-Wettenhall Prize for the best Australian history postgraduate thesis at the University of Melbourne – is the subject of her book, and so it is Mack’s experience reporting on WW1 which is the focus of her attention.
Baker’s account begins in an interesting way:
Purportedly??
TO read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2017/01/04/australian-women-war-reporters-boer-war-to-v...… (mais)