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7 de may. de 2024 · Follows reporters Ruth Cowan, Martha Gellhorn, and Dickey Chapelle as they circumvent restrictions and prohibitions placed on female reporters by U.S. government during WWII and push their reporting to focus on the human cost of war. No Job for a Woman: The Women Who Fought to Report WWII is streaming with subscription on Kanopy.
Hace 4 días · Before World War II (1941-1945), when women worked outside the home it was usually in jobs traditionally considered to be “women’s work.”. These included teaching, domestic service, clerical work, nursing, and library science.
Hace 2 días · Elizabeth Cady Stanton ( née Cady; November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century.
Hace 3 días · From Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, to Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani activist who fought for girls' education despite facing Taliban threats, these women have shown immense courage and determination in the face of adversity.
Hace 4 días · It was no secret that her father had been pro-Nazi and spent the entire war in a British prison, but her mother’s secret was one that Audrey felt the burden of protecting. She didn’t agree with what her parents had done, but she had to protect her mother.
25 de abr. de 2024 · Chapelle was one of the first female foreign correspondents to cover World War II and later the Milwaukee, Wisconsin native covered armed conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, and countries around the world. Her massive amount of work included 6,000 prints, nearly 17,700 negatives, and almost 6,500 transparencies.
2 de may. de 2024 · For the past twenty-five years, cinema has been a vital terrain on which feminist debates about culture, representation, and identity have been fought. This anthology charts the history of those debates, bringing together the key, classic essays in feminist film theory.
