“Dangerously Feminine?” Theory and Praxis of Women's Alternative Radio

Mitchell, Caroline

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“…Many African nations have witnessed an increase in community radio since the 1990s when political systems opened up. These stations have been used to strengthen democracy and increase representation of people (particularly women) and issues previously ignored (Mitchell 2004;see also Bosch 2007). Radio listening in many of Africa's poorer areas has become a communal activity, and 'listening clubs' have been developed.…”

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Feminist and Gender Media Studies: A Critical Overview

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Carter

2008

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This paper offers a general overview of past, current, and developing issues and debates in the growing field of gender and feminist media studies. Its main aim is to provide for those who are new to the field, as well as advanced students and researchers, a broad sense of what is now significant and important area of academic research. It engages with the differences and similarities between gender and feminist media studies, gendered communication systems, gendered news production, feminist methodologies and methods in communication research (textual, audience, and production based), the media's role in constructing gender, and gendered and feminist research by specific media form including advertising, magazines, film, television, news, radio, and the Internet and new media. The outline of research presented is not exhaustive; however, it attempts to trace certain significant developments in the field historically, conceptually, methodologically politically and trans-nationally.1702 Feminist and Gender Media Studies social inequalities across time and cultures, thereby making it difficult for men and women to be equal partners in democratic society. Feminist communication research is tied to a political movement for structural social change rather than individual change. As such, feminist scholarly research is inseparable from activist forms of feminism. On the other hand, gender studies are not implicitly political in the sense of having an agenda for social change on the basis of gender equality. Instead, the principal aim has been one of raising awareness about the ways in which gender affects individual life choices and chances, and thus women's and men's relative personal opportunities for personal and career success. Gender studies in communicationCommunication scholarship examining gender issues has a longer history than that of feminist scholarship. Gender studies usually refer to research which examines the ways in which sex roles -or the false belief that women and men are innately different -are portrayed in the media. Gender studies, as a recognizably distinctive field of academic scholarship, dates back to at least the 1960s in the disciplines of psychology, sociology, linguistics, and anthropology, amongst others. Insights from these disciplines provided a formative basis for the establishment of gender studies in communication primarily from the 1970s onward. Until the 1980s, it was generally assumed that communication studies gender research would focus on women. As the 20th century came to a close, gender and communication scholars became much more interested in also researching some of the ways in which men and male sex roles were portrayed, and began to explore how communication systems and processes contributed to the construction of different forms of masculinity (Benwell 2003;Beynon 2002). This preoccupation represented a shift from assumptions about masculinity as an unquestioned norm, to one in which masculinity became the focus of scholarly examination.As noted above, gender and commun...

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“…Asia has some of the fewest women's community radio stations, while Latin America and the Caribbean have many, often in remote or rural areas. One of the most successful stations is the Feminist International Radio Endeavour (FIRE), an online radio station located in Costa Rica, and broadcast in Spanish and English (Mitchell 2004).…”

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Feminist and Gender Media Studies: A Critical Overview

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Carter

2008

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Women's Radio Production

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The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication

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Radio listening has been intimately entwined with women's lives since its invention in the 1920s. The emerging field of radio studies has encompassed research about female radio pioneers and the historical importance of radio made by women, providing a critique of the gender blindness of radio history writing. There is now a body of feminist radio history work and related women's radio archives which demonstrate how women have been “rewritten” back into radio history. The relationship between women and radio spans research and practices concerning the nature of women's radio and feminist radio and the agency of women as program makers and managers. A reoccurring theme is the persistence of inequalities and limiting gendered roles in different parts of the radio industry worldwide and the opportunities afforded by newer forms of sound production and distribution such as community broadcasting and podcasting. Research about women's radio production has been instrumental in reconfiguring modern media spaces of identity and agency. Women have used diverse approaches within feminist and community radio to be agents of resistance against traditional representations of themselves in radio and have made forceful inroads into gender equality. Women are active as program makers in different program genres and women's radio stations, programs, and services have been set up in most regions of the world in the latter half of the 20th century. New sound platforms such as podcasting and online archives have amplified the voices and ultimately the reach of women's radio, creative audio/radio production and women's radio activism.

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“Dangerously Feminine?” Theory and Praxis of Women's Alternative Radio

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