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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: 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 &amp; 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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