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Record Nr.

UNINA9910769101403321

Autore

Clark Jennifer S.

Titolo

Producing Feminism : Television Work in the Age of Women's Liberation / / Jennifer S. Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2024]

©2024

ISBN

0-520-39930-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Collana

Feminist Media Histories ; ; 6

Disciplina

791.45082/0973

Soggetti

Feminism and mass media - United States - History - 20th century

Women in television broadcasting - United States - History - 20th century

PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Women's Groups and Workplace Reform at Network Television's Corporate Headquarters -- 2 From "Jockocratic Endeavors" to Feminist Expression -- 3 Working in the Lear Factory -- 4 Television's "Serious Sisters" -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In this deeply archival work, Jennifer S. Clark explores the multiple ways in which women's labor in the American television industry of the 1970s furthered feminist ends. Carefully crafted around an impressive assemblage of interviews and primary sources (from television network memos to programming schedules, production notes to executive meeting agendas), Clark tells the story of how women organized in the workplace to form collectives, affect production labor, and develop reform-oriented policies and philosophies that reshaped television behind the screen. She urges us to consider how interventions, often at localized levels, can collectively shift the dynamics of a workplace and the cultural products created there.