Domesticating the Airwaves: Broadcasting, Domesticity and Femininity

ISBN-13: 9781441172723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str.

Maggie Andrews

Opis

Using case studies and analytical overviews, this title explores the relationship between broadcasting and the intimate domestic sphere into which it is broadcast. It focuses on the period from the 1920s, when broadcasting was established in the UK, when both domesticity and broadcasting have become areas of anxiety and contestation.

Spis treści

Introduction \ 1. Domesticating the Airwaves \ 2. Early Domestic Goddesses: Competing Discourses of Domestic Expertise \ 3. The Gardener and the Chef: Broadcasting Celebrities 1930s Style \ 4. Domesticity Under Fire: Fractured and Extended \ 5. From Austerity to Consumer Wonderland: Post-War Domesticities \ 6. Broadening Domestic Realities: Soaps, Documentaries, and Working Class Domesticities in the 1960s and 1970s \ 7. The Personal Becomes Political: Domesticity in Turmoil and As a Political Object \ 8. Still Contesting and Idealising Domesticity \ Afterword: An Uncertain Future for Domesticity and Broadcast Media \ Bibliography \ Index.