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An essential history of women in American journalism showcasing exceptional careers from 1840 to the present

Undaunted is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalisms most valued work From Margaret Fullers improbable success to the highly paid reporters of the midnineteenth century to the breakthrough investigative triumphs of Nellie Bly Ida Tarbell and Ida B Wells Brooke Kroeger examines the lives of the bestremembered and longforgotten woman journalists She explores the careers of standout woman reporters who covered the major news stories and every conflict at home and abroad since before the Civil War and she celebrates those exceptional careers up to the present including those of Martha Gellhorn Rachel Carson Janet Malcolm Joan Didion Cokie Roberts and Charlayne HunterGault

As Kroeger chronicles the lives of journalists and newsroom leaders in every medium a larger story develops the nearly twocenturiesold struggle for womens rights Here as well is the collective fight for equity from the gentle stirrings of the late 1800s through the legal battles of the 1970s to the MeToo movement and todays racial and gender disparities

Undaunted unveils the huge and singular impact women have had on a vital profession still dominated by men