Calling the Shots: Women’s Photographic Engagement with War in Hemispheric America, 1910–1990
Journal: Durham e-Theses (Durham University)
Year: 2016

War photography is conventionally understood to be a hypermasculine practice, undertaken by risk-taking photojournalists in the combat zone. Despite growing scholarship on the fields of photography, war, and gender, there remains little that considers war’s photographic dimension as a charged arena for gender relations. This intellectual limitation impedes understanding of women’s agency and substantial participation at the nexus of war and photography. &#13;\n&#13;\nRather than single out excep