ABSTRACT
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 studies which showcase current research on women and media in Britain since the 1900s. The case studies explore media directed at a particularly female audience such as Woman’s Hour, and magazines such as Vogue, Woman and Marie Claire. Women who work in the media, issues of production, and regulation are discussed alongside the representation of women across a broad range of media from early 20th-century motorcycling magazines, Page 3 and regional television news.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |51 pages
Women and Media in the Era of Enfranchisement, 1900–1939
chapter |16 pages
Representations of Women's Motorcycle Riding 1903–1914
chapter |15 pages
From Women's Hour to Other Women's Lives
part |76 pages
Women in War and Peace
chapter |13 pages
Prostitution, Adultery and Illegitimacy
chapter |14 pages
Women's Viewpoint
part |60 pages
The Long 1960s
chapter |15 pages
“Should Women Be Bus Drivers?”
part |59 pages
80s and 90s