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Author Fisher, Catherine, author.

Title Sound citizens : Australian women broadcasters claim their voice, 1923-1956 / Catherine Fisher.

Publication Info. Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, 2021.
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 185 pages) : illustrations
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Summary 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. Taking this claim as its starting point, Sound Citizens examines how a cohort of professional women broadcasters, activists and politicians used radio to contribute to the public sphere and improve women's status in Australia from the introduction of radio in 1923 until the introduction of television in 1956. This book reveals a much broader and more complex history of women's contributions to Australian broadcasting than has been previously acknowledged.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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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.
Subject Women broadcasters -- Australia -- History.
Women in radio broadcasting -- Australia -- History.
Radio broadcasters -- Australia -- History.
Mass media -- Political aspects -- Australia -- History.
Political culture -- Australia -- History.
Sex role -- Australia -- History.
Women in the mass media industry -- Australia -- History.
History.
Personnalités de la radio et de la télévision -- Australie -- Histoire.
Femmes dans l'industrie de la radio -- Australie -- Histoire.
Rôle selon le sexe -- Australie -- Histoire.
Femmes dans l'industrie des médias -- Australie -- Histoire.
Mass media -- Political aspects
Political culture
Radio broadcasters
Sex role
Women broadcasters
Women in radio broadcasting
Women in the mass media industry
Australia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRv8PPH7gCqhkJ8DK8bM
Genre/Form History
Added Author Australian National University Press.
Other Form: Print version: Sound Citizens : Australian women broadcasters claim their voice, 1923-1956. Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU Press, 2021 9781760464301 (OCoLC)1246213700
ISBN 9781760464318 (electronic bk.)
1760464317 (electronic bk.)
9781760464301 (print)
1760464309 (print)
Standard No. AUNED 000069279757
AU@ 000069791821

 
    
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