Gender, media and voice : communicative injustice and public speech / Jilly Boyce Kay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kay, Jilly Boyce, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and women.

Television and women.

Physical Description:

vii, 193 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

Summary:

This book explores the increasing imperatives to speak up, to speak out, and to 'find ones voice in contemporary media culture. It considers how, for women in particular, this seems to constitute a radical break with the historical idealization of silence and demureness. However, the author argues that there is a growing and pernicious gap between the seductive promise of voice, and voice as it actually exists. While brutal instruments such as the ducking stool and scolds bridle are no longer in use to punish womens speech, Kay proposes that communicative injustice now operates in much more insidious ways. The wide-ranging chapters explore the mediated 'voices of women such as Monica Lewinsky, Hannah Gadsby, Diane Abbott, and Yassmin Abdel-Magied, as well as the problems and possibilities of gossip, nagging, and the 'traumatised voice in television talk shows. It critiques the optimistic claims about the 'unleashing of womens voices post-#MeToo and examines the ways that womens speech continues to be trivialized and devalued. Communicative justice, the author argues, is not about empowering individuals to 'find their voice, but about collectively transforming the whole communicative terrain.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction: Gender, voice and value

Chapter 2: The democratic possibilities of television talk

Chapter 3: Intimate voices: television talk and the re-gendering of the public sphere

Chapter 4: 'Pink ghettos: rethinking womens talk programming

Chapter 5: Speaking bitterness: feminism and televisual consciousness-raising

Chapter 6: 'Out of place: womens talk in political debate programmes

Chapter 7: 'One of the lads: comedy panel shows and the gendering of 'banter

Chapter 8: Conclusion: Re-valuing voice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3030472868

9783030472863

OCLC:

1148889346