Abstract
The Era of the Velvet Ghetto: To what extent can the evolution of women's position in war reportage since the Second World War be explained by Djerf-Pierre's theory of ‘The Gender of Journalism'? This project analyses the evolution of women's position of influence within the professional field of war reportage since the Second World War, with the research question focusing upon the extent to which said evolution can be critically explained by Monika Djerf-Pierre's (2007) theory of the ‘Gender of Journalism'. Djerf-Pierre's theory itself describes three distinct eras throughout modern history in which the influence of women, within the broader field of journalism, has changed, justifying the progression of these eras by drawing upon Pierre Bourdieu's (2001) theory of ‘Masculine Domination'. What Bourdieu, in turn, suggests is that a gender's power within a specific field is predicated upon a balance of three factors: politics, economics, and professionalism, while Djerf-Pierre uses the prominence of each, the balance some might say, to serve as classification for each of the three aforesaid eras.
