I had the unaccustomed pleasure of giving an interview today (nothing will ever be the same after August 4). The journalist stayed for an hour and a half and seemed a very professional interviewer. She was rather quietly making me talk... and what a peculiar experience to be discussing things like controversial reporters who usually provoke rather strong emotional reactions, without ever knowing the other person's opinions about it all.
Along the way she actually raised the question of the missing women, not just in my dissertation, but in the paradigm of spectacular, personal reportage as such. Given the fact that the paradigm has modelled itself on the work of two men, Wallraff and Thompson, it's really not that strange. So there's one explanation. But still - women do write essays even if the essay genre is traditionally considered to be shaped by a man, another founding father.
Female wallraffers exist, but they don't seem to get as obtrusively personal and gonzolike as their male colleagues.
Actually the Norwegians have a female gonzo journalist by the pen name of Syphilia Morgenstierne who has been canonized by Kjetil Wiedswang in his fine book on Fear and Loathing in Norwegian (Angst og bæven. Gonzo på norsk). I haven't yet read what she's written, but just now I found her SPHLOGG.
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