Women and Radio by Caroline Mitchell - 9780415220712

Taylor & Francis

Combining classic work on radio with innovative research, journalism and biography, Women and Radio 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.\nWomen and Radio examines the relationship between radio audiences, technologies and programming and reveals and explains the inequalities experienced by women working in the industry.\n > Introduction: On a Woman's Wavelength?; 1: Gendered radio \u2013 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\u20131940; 4: From Plauderei to Propaganda: On Women's Radio in Germany 1924\u201335; 5: Twin Peaks: The Staying Power of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour; 6: Twisting the Dials: Lesbians on British Radio; 7: Wome