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Sensational, the hidden history of America's "girl stunt reporters", Kim Todd

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-357) and index

contains biographical information

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Sensational

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Kim Todd

the hidden history of America's "girl stunt reporters"

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 AmericaIn 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

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

Hidden history of America's "girl stunt reporters"