Women and Radio: Airing Differences

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.

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

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