Neither worker nor housewife but citizen: BBC’s woman’s hour 1946–1955
Authors: Skoog, K.
Journal: Women's History Review
Volume: 26
Issue: 6
Pages: 953-974
ISSN: 0961-2025
DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2016.1277837
Abstract:This article investigates BBC radio’s Woman’s Hour in the post-war period. It explores Woman’s Hour’s focus and insistence on educating women listeners about their role as citizens, and the tensions this caused particularly between broadcasters and different groups of women. The article documents the programme’s development of public and outward looking items, such as the reporting and covering of current affairs, public debates and national politics, women’s party political conferences, and further introducing women MP’s to the microphone. This gave the programme a public and arguably political dimension. The article thus places Woman’s Hour within the broader historiography of the women’s movement in this period, and illuminates the changing role and expectation of women, particularly the middle-class housewife.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/27408/
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Neither worker nor housewife but citizen: BBC's <i>Woman's Hour</i> 1946-1955
Authors: Skoog, K.
Journal: WOMENS HISTORY REVIEW
Volume: 26
Issue: 6
Pages: 953-974
eISSN: 1747-583X
ISSN: 0961-2025
DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2016.1277837
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/27408/
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Neither worker nor housewife but citizen: BBC’s Woman’s Hour 1946–1955
Authors: Skoog, K.
Journal: Women's History Review
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles
ISSN: 1747-583X
DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2016.1277837
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/27408/
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Neither worker nor housewife but citizen: BBC’s Woman’s Hour 1946–1955
Authors: Skoog, K.
Journal: Women's History Review
Volume: 26
Issue: 6
Pages: 953-974
ISSN: 1747-583X
Abstract:This article investigates BBC radio’s Woman’s Hour in the post-war period. It explores Woman’s Hour’s focus and insistence on educating women listeners about their role as citizens, and the tensions this caused particularly between broadcasters and different groups of women. The article documents the programme’s development of public and outward looking items, such as the reporting and covering of current affairs, public debates and national politics, women’s party political conferences, and further introducing women MP’s to the microphone. This gave the programme a public and arguably political dimension. The article thus places Woman’s Hour within the broader historiography of the women’s movement in this period, and illuminates the changing role and expectation of women, particularly the middle-class housewife.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/27408/
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