Women and Radio: Airing Differences

by Mitchell; Caroline

• ISBN13: 9780415220712
• ISBN10: 0415220718
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-04-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

By examining the relationship between radio audiences, technologies and programming, this book reveals and explains the inequalities experienced by women in the industry. The contributors examine the relationship between women and music and discuss "housewife radio," DJ chatter, the feminist news agenda and radio as a subversive tool for empowering women.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	xi
Notes on contributors	xii
Foreword	xv
Anne Karpf
Acknowledgements	xix
Introduction: On a woman's wavelength?	1	(8)
Caroline Mitchell
Part 1 GENDERED RADIO---HIDDEN HISTORIES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROGRAMMING BY AND FOR WOMEN	9	(102)
Introduction	11	(4)
Caroline Mitchell
Speaking up: voice amplification and women's struggle for public expression	15	(14)
Anne McKay
Broadcasting a life	29	(12)
Olive Shapley
Hilda Matheson and the BBC, 1926--1940	41	(7)
Fred Hunter
From Plauderei to propaganda: on women's radio in Germany 1924--35	48	(16)
Kate Lacey
Twin peaks: the staying power of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour	64	(9)
Sally Feldman
Twisting the dials: lesbians on British radio	73	(21)
Sheridan Nye
Nicola Godwin
Belinda Hollows
Women's Airwaves Collective
Women's Airwaves survey	84	(10)
Sisters are doing it ... From Fem FM to Viva! A history of contemporary women's radio stations in the UK	94	(17)
Caroline Mitchell
Part 2 RADIO TEXTS AND AUDIENCES AND THE RISE OF FEMINIST RADIO	111	(92)
Introduction	113	(3)
Caroline Mitchell
From `Unruly guest' to `Good companion': the gendered meanings of early radio in the home	116	(10)
Shaun Moores
Mother's little helper: programmes, personalities and the working day	126	(11)
Stephen Barnard
Justifying injustice: broadcasters' accounts of inequality in radio	137	(15)
Rosalind Gill
Gender, fantasy and radio consumption: an ethnographic case study	152	(15)
Jo Tacchi
Galway's pirate women	167	(15)
Margaretta D'Arcy
Limited talk	182	(7)
Karen Qureshi
On air/off air: defining women's radio space in European women's community radio	189	(14)
Caroline Mitchell
Part 3 WOMEN WORKING IN RADIO	203	(72)
Introduction	205	(4)
Caroline Mitchell
Getting in and getting on: women and radio management at the BBC	209	(10)
Caroline Millington
The long goodbye	219	(5)
Stephen Wells
The nature of glass: participation of women in the Irish independent radio industry	224	(14)
Maria Gibbons
The last bastion: how women become music presenters in UK radio	238	(12)
Kim Michaels
Caroline Mitchell
Women in radio news: making a difference?	250	(12)
Janet Haworth
Sound advice for women who want to work in radio	262	(13)
Caroline Mitchell
Part 4 CONTACTS AND RESOURCES	275	(8)
UK women's radio stations, community based training projects and support groups	277	(2)
UK radio and training organisations and publications	279	(2)
Women's radio stations and contacts world-wide	281	(2)
Index	283