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 America's Jessie Maple Patton to China's first camerawomen to women in poverty empowered by cameras in rural India, this book reveals a world of women working with courage and skill in what has long been seen as a male field.