Women and Radio

Introduction: On a Woman's Wavelength?; 1: Gendered radio – hidden histories and the development of programming by and for women; 1: Introduction; 1: Speaking up: Voice Amplification and Women's Struggle for Public Expression; 2: Broadcasting a Life; 3: Hilda Matheson and the BBC, 1926–1940; 4: From Plauderei to Propaganda: On Women's Radio in Germany 1924–35; 5: Twin Peaks: The Staying Power of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour; 6: Twisting the Dials: Lesbians on British Radio; 7: Women's Airwaves Survey; 8: Sisters are doing it … From Fem FM to Viva! A History of Contemporary Women's Radio Stations in the UK; 2: Radio texts and audiences and the rise of feminist radio; 2: Introduction; 9: From ‘Unruly Guest' to ‘Good Companion': The Gendered Meanings of Early Radio in the Home; 10: Mother's Little Helper: Programmes, Personalities and the Working Day; 11: Justifying Injustice: Broadcasters' Accounts of Inequality in Radio; 12: Gender, Fantasy and Radio Consumption: An Ethnographic Case Study; 13: Galway's Pirate Women; 14: Limited Talk; 15: On Air/Off Air: Defining Women's Radio Space in European Women's Community Radio; 3: Women working in radio; 3: Introduction; 16: Getting in and Getting on: Women and Radio Management at the BBC; 17: The Long Goodbye; 18: The Nature of Glass: Participation of Women in the Irish Independent Radio Industry; 19: The Last Bastion: How Women Become Music Presenters in UK Radio; 20: Women in Radio News: Making a Difference?; 21: Sound Advice for Women who want to Work in Radio; 4: Contacts and resources