![]() ![]() But that focus doesn't slight other female pioneers who are also cited. The prevailing view was that the war was being fought by men against men and women had no place there."īecker's focus on three journalists - American writer Frances FitzGerald, French photographer Catherine Leroy and Australian reporter Kate Webb - is wise, because it establishes a condensed and readable narrative. ![]() The book is prefaced by a knowing quote from one of the legendary male reporters in Vietnam, the Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Arnett, who observed, "The Vietnam press corps was a male bastion that women entered only at the risk of being humiliated and patronized. Women still had to fight male editors and colleagues to get the chance to cover what Becker rightly calls the most important geopolitical event of the 1960s and 1970s. But Becker has another story to tell: an accomplished and deeply reported account of three female journalists who were pioneers at a time when war reporting was very much a male domain. ![]()
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