Women and Radio: Airing Differences

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Caroline Mitchell
Psychology Press, 2000 - Performing Arts - 290 pages

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.
Women and Radio examines the relationship between radio audiences, technologies and programming and reveals and explains the inequalities experienced by women working in the industry.

 

Contents

GENDERED RADIO HIDDEN HISTORIES AND
2
voice amplification and womens struggle
15
Broadcasting a life
29
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69
Womens Airwaves Collective
84
Part 2
103
Introduction
113
broadcasters accounts of inequality
137
14
168
defining womens radio space in European
189
Introduction
205
The long goodbye
219
how women become music presenters
238
making a difference?
250
Sound advice for women who want to work in radio
262
UK womens radio stations community based training projects
277

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About the author (2000)

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.

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