Sound Citizens : Australian Women Broadcasters Claim Their Voice, 1923-1956

Sound Citizens Australian Women Broadcasters Claim Their Voice, 1923-1956

In 1954 Dame Enid Lyons, the first woman elected to the Australian House of Representatives, argued that radio had 'created a bigger revolution in the life of a woman than anything that has happened any time' as it brought the public sphere into the home and women into the public sphere....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fisher, Catherine (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Canberra ANU Press 2021
Canberra : 2021.
Subjects:
Radio
Media studies
Feminism & feminist theory
Gender studies: women
Australia.
media
women
ABC
Broadcasting
History.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009605741006719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Establishing the platform: the Interwar years
  • World citizens: women's broadcasting and internationalism
  • Voicing the war effort: women's broadcasts during World War II
  • 'An epoch making event': radio and the new female Parliamentarians
  • Fighting soap: the postwar years
  • We span the distance': women's radio and regional communities
  • Conclusion.

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