Women Come to the Front

Download or read book Women Come to the Front written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters of the World War II spotlights eight women who succeeded in “coming to the front” during the war- Therese Bonney, Toni Frissell, Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, Clare Boothe Luce, Janet Flanner, Esther Bubley, Dorothea Lange, and May Craig. Their stories - drawn from private papers and photographs primarily in Library of Congress collections - open a window on a generation of women who changed American society forever by securing a place for themselves in the workplace, in the newsroom, and on the battlefield.”