Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1998

Publication Title

Quest/Old Dominion University

Volume

2

Issue

1

Pages

2-5

Abstract

Women went to Vietnam as war correspondents in unprecedented numbers in the 1960s and early 1970s. A combination of intellectual curiosity, professional longings to be at the center of a big story and a simple lust for adventure drew women to the jungles of Southeast Asia, just as those same urges had long drawn men to the spectacle of war. For a decade and a half, women begged, cajoled or simply paid their own way to Vietnam. Together they transformed the role of women as war correspondents from an aberration to a norm. But very few of them were acknowledged as the professional equals of their male counterparts— then or now.

Original Publication Citation

Hoffmann, J. (Fall 1998). On their own: Female correspondents in Vietnam. Quest/Old Dominion University, 2(1), 2-5.

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