ABSTRACT
This chapter explores evidence from the majority world and the United States (US) that radio has the potential to alleviate voice poverty and be activated as a vehicle for women’s empowerment. The development of the Radio Research Group (RRG) was instructive in many ways, not least because it underlined the importance of being led by participants, and actively seeking out women’s stories as fundamental to feminist research. Feminists have not succeeded in creating a mass movement against sexual oppression because the very foundation of women’s liberation has, until now, not accounted for the complexity and diversity of female experience. A project focusing on challenging gender inequality does not simultaneously work on challenging inequality between women from an ethnic majority, and women from an ethnic minority. The purpose of using narrative inquiry is in order to create a picture of the respondents’ worlds: ‘In narrative inquiry, people are looked at as embodiments of lived stories’.
