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Record Nr.

UNINA9910491846503321

Autore

Fisher Catherine

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, : ANU Press, 2021

Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2021

©2021

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 pages)

Disciplina

791.440994

Soggetti

Radio

Media studies

Feminism & feminist theory

Gender studies: women

History

Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.