Shooting Women Behind the Camera, Around World

Alexis Krasilovsky is professor in the Department of Cinema and Television Arts at California State University, Northridge. Harriet Margolis has taught film, literature, and women's studies in the US and New Zealand, and has published internationally on these subjects. Julia Stein is a poet and editor. Shooting Women takes readers around the world to explore the lives of camerawomen working in features, TV news, and documentaries. From pioneers like African American camerawoman Jessie Maple Patton who got her job only after suing the union – to China’s first camerawomen – who travelled with Mao – to rural India where women in poverty have learned camerawork as a means of empowerment, Shooting Women reveals a world of women working with courage and skill in what has long been seen as a male field.