Women and Radio: Airing Differences

ISBN-13: 9780415220712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 312 str.

Caroline Mitchell

Opis

From the very first days of national broadcasting at the BBC and the innovative work of producers and editors, through to Zoe Ball doing breakfast, women have been at the heart of radio, yet marginalized in the official histories. Combining classic work on radio with innovative research, journalism and biography, this book offers a variety of approaches to understanding the position of women as producers, presenters and consumers as well as offering guidelines, advice and helpful information for women wanting to work in radio. It examines the relationship between radio audiences, technologies and programming and reveals and explains the inequalities experienced by women working in the industry. It also provides a platform for the many contributions that women have made to broadcasting as producers and listeners of radio in both mainstream programming such as Woman's Hour and from the margins as represented by accounts of lesbian radio, feminist pirate broadcasts, local Asian radio and community stations.

Recenzje

'This book is a celebration of our contribution as women to radio and a clarion call for its powerful voice to be shared equally between women and men.' - Jenni Murray, Presenter, Woman's Hour, Radio 4

'An invaluable resource for courses through schools, FE, to HE and even postgraduate training modules or diplomas' - Gill Branston, in the picture

Spis treści

Introduction: On a Woman's Wavelength?; 1: Gendered radio – hidden histories and the development of programming by and for women; 1: Introduction; 1: Speaking up: Voice Amplification and Women's Struggle for Public Expression; 2: Broadcasting a Life; 3: Hilda Matheson and the BBC, 1926–1940; 4: From Plauderei to Propaganda: On Women's Radio in Germany 1924–35; 5: Twin Peaks: The Staying Power of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour; 6: Twisting the Dials: Lesbians on British Radio; 7: Women's Airwaves Survey; 8: Sisters are doing it … From Fem FM to Viva! A History of Contemporary Women's Radio Stations in the UK; 2: Radio texts and audiences and the rise of feminist radio; 2: Introduction; 9: From ‘Unruly Guest' to ‘Good Companion': The Gendered Meanings of Early Radio in the Home; 10: Mother's Little Helper: Programmes, Personalities and the Working Day; 11: Justifying Injustice: Broadcasters' Accounts of Inequality in Radio; 12: Gender, Fantasy and Radio Consumption: An Ethnographic Case Study; 13: Galway's Pirate Women; 14: Limited Talk; 15: On Air/Off Air: Defining Women's Radio Space in European Women's Community Radio; 3: Women working in radio; 3: Introduction; 16: Getting in and Getting on: Women and Radio Management at the BBC; 17: The Long Goodbye; 18: The Nature of Glass: Participation of Women in the Irish Independent Radio Industry; 19: The Last Bastion: How Women Become Music Presenters in UK Radio; 20: Women in Radio News: Making a Difference?; 21: Sound Advice for Women who want to Work in Radio; 4: Contacts and resources

O autorze

Caroline Mitchell is principal lecturer in radio at the University of Sunderland. She has been active in the community radio movement in the UK for the last 20 years and jointly set up the first women's radio station in the UK: Fem FM.