Soon after publication, the US military confiscated Gellhorn’s press credentials. Hemingway’s third wife had brazenly evaded rules barring female correspondents from the frontlines. Utterly undaunted, Gellhorn went on to chronicle every major conflict in the 20th century.
Kroeger starts with Margaret Fuller, the 19th-century abolitionist who William Lloyd Garrison called the “first woman of the republic”. At a time when women never used their name in print except for birth, marriage or death announcements, she signed her articles with an “F” – or just an asterisk. A prolific essayist, social reform reporter and foreign correspondent, her career preceded the 1848 Seneca Falls convention that kicked off the 80-year campaign for suffrage.
Yet the few intrepid women who ventured to Vietnam faced discrimination. The AP reporter Peter Arnett recalls: “The women received sexist treatment from the men, including myself, who believed they should not be there.” They were dismissed by editors, disrespected and sexually harassed by colleagues. Correspondents like the towering Gloria Emerson “would refuse to respond when anyone asked her, as they often did, what it had been like to be a woman in Vietnam.
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