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1 online resource |
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Introduction -- The 1920s: the radio adventure begins -- The 1930s: the women behind the men -- The 1940s: visible for a while -- The 1950s: forward into the past -- The 1960s and 1970s: and when it changed -- The 1980s and 1990s: progress and possibility -- The 2000s: invisible no more? women in the new century |
| Summary |
Invisible Stars was the first book to recognize that women have always played an important part in American electronic media. The emphasis is on social history, as the author skillfully explains how the changing role of women in different eras influenced their participation in broadcasting. This is not just the story of radio stars or broadcast journalists, but a social history of women both on and off the air. Beginning in the early 1920s with the emergence of radio, the book chronicles the ambivalence toward women in broadcasting during the 1930s and 1940s, the gradual change in status of wo |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Originally published: Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2014 |
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Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Women in the broadcasting industry -- United States
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Women in the broadcasting industry
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317520184 |
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1317520181 |
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