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Title Women and the media : feminism and femininity in Britain, 1900 to the present / edited by Maggie Andrews and Sallie McNamara
Published New York : Routledge, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 265 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge research in gender and history ; 18
Routledge research in gender and history ; 18.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Women and Media in the Era of Enfranchisement, 1900-1939; 1. 'Elated, Exhilarated and Emancipated': Representations of Women's Motorcycle Riding in the Motorcycling Media, 1903-1914; Introduction; The Significance of Motorcycle Journalism in Turbulent Times; Disorderedly Women Riders; Waking Up Lady Motorcyclists; Conclusion; Bibliography / Sources; Periodical Sources
2. From Women's Hour to Other Women's Lives: The BBC Talks for Women and the Women Who Made Them, 1923-1939Introduction; Ella Fitzgerald; Hilda Matheson and Elise Sprott; Margery Wace; Janet Quigley; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography / Sources; 3. Lady Eleanor Smith: The Society Column, 1927-1930; Introduction: The Significance of Lady Eleanor Smith's Society Column; The Shifting Terrain of the Ruling Class; 'From My Window in Vanity Fair': A Modern View; Conservatism Mixed with Aspects of Bohemian: The Arts, Romany/Gypsies; Conclusion; Bibliography / Sources; Periodical Sources
Part II: Women in War and Peace: The 1940s and 1950s4. A View from the Frontline: The War Photography of Lee Miller; Introduction; Biography: The Coming Together of Miller's Photography and British Vogue; Artistic Development: Contradictions and Fractures; The Authorial Voice of Miller's View from the Front Line; Conclusion; Bibliography / Sources; Periodical Sources; 5. Prostitution, Adultery and Illegitimacy: Tortuous Couplings and Unstable Sexual Repression in Wartime Film; Introduction; Narratives of Women and Sexuality in the Second World War
As the War Ends: Coming to Terms with Brief EncountersThe Holly and the Ivy: Illegitimacy; Conclusion; Bibliography / Sources; Filmography; 6. Striving for Editorial Autonomy and Internal Recognition: BBC's Woman's Hour; Introduction; Setting up a Programme for Women; Knowing Your Listeners; The Working Woman; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography / Sources; 7. Women's Viewpoint: Representing and Constructing Femininity in Early 1950s Television for Women; Introduction; Researching Early Television; For the Housewife; Women's Viewpoint; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography / Sources
8. 'But What about Mum?': Journalist Diana RowntreeIntroduction; The Pioneer; The Architect and the Mother; Utopia: A Feminist Vision of the Future; Conclusion; Bibliography / Sources; Newspaper Articles; Radio Interview; Part III: The Long 1960s: Cultural Revolution?; 9. Young Women and Woman: Depictions of Youthful Femininity, 1954-1969; Fantasy and Dreams: The Girl-About-Town; Dreaming of Marriage: The Young Woman as Bride and Wife; Tensions and Challenges: Young Women Readers and Lived Experience; Conclusion; Bibliography / Sources; Periodicals
Summary The media have played a significant role in the contested and changing social position of women in Britain since the 1900s. They have facilitated feminism by both providing discourses and images from which women can construct their identities, and offering spaces where hegemonic ideas of femininity can be reworked. This volume is intended to provide an overview of work on Broadcasting, Film and Print Media from 1900, while appealing to scholars of History and Media, Film and Cultural Studies. This edited collection features tightly focused and historically contextualised case s
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Feminism and mass media -- Great Britain -- History
Women in mass media -- History
Women -- Great Britain -- History
Feminism -- Great Britain -- History
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Feminism
Feminism and mass media
Women
Women in mass media
Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Andrews, Maggie, editor.
McNamara, Sallie, editor.
ISBN 9781135106911
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9781135106904
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