Gender and Media in the Broadcast Age: Womens Radio Programming at the BBC, CBC, and ABC

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This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. The 20th century was a time of rapid expansion in media industries, as well as of accelerating demands for equality and recognition for women. While womens agency has typically been defined through the domestic sphere, the introduction of media into the home destabilised firm boundaries between public and private spheres. Gender and Media in the Broadcast Age demonstrates how women as media producers and audiences in three countries with public service broadcasters (UK, Canada and Australia) have contributed to changes in our understandings of public and private. Justine Lloyd offers a new way of understanding how tremendous changes in social definitions of gender roles played out in media forms worldwide during this period through the notion of intimate geographies. Womens participation in media continues to be a key challenge to notions of the public sphere and the book concludes that profound changes initiated in the broadcast era are unfinished in the age of digital media. Lloyd therefore provides rich and valuable evidence of the dynamic relationship between media texts, producers and audiences that is relevant to contemporary debates about a growing gender apartheid in a mediated culture.

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Gender and Media in the Broadcast Age deserves a space in any university library. This title is a very interesting and innovative study of women's broadcasting across three continents, and it makes a strong case that early broadcasters were at the forefront of feminism. * Radio User *
In this brilliantly ambitious book Justine Lloyd weaves together theoretical insight and radio stories from three continents to reveal in high definition the complex patterning of public and private life in the interplay of gender politics and public service broadcasting. * Kate Lacey, Professor of Media History and Theory, University of Sussex, UK *
With Gender and Media in the Broadcast Age, Justine Lloyd has produced a long-term, international comparative study of women's radio that is both impressive in scope and long overdue in scholarship. Her theoretical framework structured around the geographies of intimacy gives rise to a rich, multi-sited and multiply mediated exploration of both sides of the radio apparatus, and in so doing opens up further comparative and transnational horizons. It will be of interest to scholars of media history and women's history and will offer vital perspectives on the continuing reconfigurations of media intimacy and public service in our current age. * Alexander Badenoch, Netherlands Insitute for Sound and Vision Professor of Transnational Media, Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands *

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Justine Lloyd is Lecturer in the Culture and Everyday Life stream of the Department of Sociology, Macquarie University, Australia.