Sound Citizens : Australian Women Broadcasters Claim Their Voice, 1923-1956.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fisher, Catherine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Sound Citizens

Place of Publication:

Canberra ANU Press 2021

Canberra : ANU Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 cc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

OCLC:

1246213475

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access