Women and Radio: Airing Differences

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Caroline Mitchell
Routledge, Apr 23, 2014 - Performing Arts - 320 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

On a womans wavelength?
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Part 1 GENDERED RADIO HIDDEN HISTORIES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROGRAMMING BY AND FOR WOMEN
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Part 2 RADIO TEXTS AND AUDIENCES AND THE RISE OF FEMINIST RADIO
111
Part 3 WOMEN WORKING IN RADIO
203
Part 4 CONTACTS AND RESOURCES
275
Index
283
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About the author (2014)

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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