Researching the History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947–1989

Collie, Hazel; Irwin, Mary; Moseley, Rachel; Wheatley, Helen; Wood, Helen

doi:10.1080/13688804.2012.752961

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“…A recent resurgence in the gendered histories of media institutions (e.g. Collie et al, 2013) has perhaps been in response to these absences as well as the ‘cultural turn’, in which work and labour issues were often downplayed in pursuit of questions of female spectatorship and gendered readings of media texts. New methodologies have incorporated biography (Murphy, 2016; Seaton, 2004) and drawn on scholarship in the ‘history of emotions’ in order to bring to light the creativity of the individuals involved in the ‘hidden labour of production’ (Hendy, 2012: 362).…”

Section: Media Historiographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Gendered labour and media: histories and continuities

Baker

Lloyd

2016

Media International Australia

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On the evening of 5 September 1975, 150 women occupied the offices of the Canberra Times, protesting about an editorial hostile to participants in a national conference on ‘Women and Politics’. This action, at the production site of the Australian capital’s only broadsheet newspaper, provides a context for this themed issue’s focus on gendered labour and media. We review recent perspectives on contemporary labour, and note that a persistent theme of this research is that recent changes in the media industries have seen the devaluation of professional work cultures as work in such industries has become more precarious. These changes are set against legacies of the devaluation of women’s work within the media, and negotiations of spaces for women to carve out media careers, which are explored by contributors to this issue. The article concludes by drawing out the need for a historically informed position on the gendering of media labour.

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Section: Media Historiographymentioning

confidence: 99%