Gender and Media in the Broadcast Age : Women's Radio Programming at the BBC, CBC, and ABC /
The 20th century was a time of rapid expansion in media industries, as well as of accelerating demands for equality and recognition for women. While women's agency has typically been defined through the domestic sphere, the introduction of media into the home destabilised firm boundaries betwee...
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: New Connections; 1 Radio: Public, Private, Intimate; Introduction; Spatial histories; Histories of intimacy; Inciting intimate geographies; 2 Media's Domestication as Intimate Geography; Introduction: Not a technical article; Making time for women; Writing radio histories; The (gendered) democratization of everyday life; Conclusion; 3 Anything but the News: Defining Women's Programming in Australia, 1935-1950s; Introduction; She will be missed ... ; Woman's place is in the world; The plight of the home
- Censorship and the women's cold warResuming transmission; Wishy-washy sessions; Conclusion; 4 Mental Health on a National Scale: The Women of the CBC, 1940-1953; Introduction; Caught in the act: Monica Mugan; They Tell Me: Claire Wallace; Leftovers and politics: Kate Aitken; "Housekeeping Plus": Mattie Rotenberg; Behind the scenes: Elizabeth Long; Conclusion; 5 Listening to the Listener: Constructing Woman's Hour at the BBC, 1946-1955; Women's Hour and after; A question of genre; Defining Woman's Hour; The middle-class Woman's Hour?; Something about children; Making space for listening
- The limits of listeningConclusion: Gender, time, and labor; 6 The Long Legacies of Women's Programming; The cold case of the disappearance of women's programming; Feminists' Hour or Woman's Hour; Conclusion: Whisky and wives; Notes; Bibliography; Index
