Women and Radio

Caroline Mitchell is principal lecturer in radio at the University of Sunderland. She has been active in the community radio movement in the UK for the last 20 years and jointly set up the first women's radio station in the UK: Fem FM.

'This book is a celebration of our contribution as women to radio and a clarion call for its powerful voice to be shared equally between women and men.' - Jenni Murray, Presenter, Woman's Hour, Radio 4'An invaluable resource for courses through schools, FE, to HE and even postgraduate training modules or diplomas' - Gill Branston, in the picture

• Introduction: On a Woman's Wavelength?; 1: Gendered radio – hidden histories and the development of programming by and for women; 1: Introduction; 1: Speaking up: Voice Amplification and Women's Struggle for Public Expression; 2: Broadcasting a Life; 3: Hilda Matheson and the BBC, 1926–1940; 4: From Plauderei to Propaganda: On Women's Radio in Germany 1924–35; 5: Twin Peaks: The Staying Power of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour; 6: Twisting the Dials: Lesbians on British Radio; 7: Women's Airwaves Survey; 8: Sisters are doing it … From Fem FM to Viva! A History of Contemporary Women's Radio Stations in the UK; 2: Radio texts and audiences and the rise of feminist radio; 2: Introduction; 9: From ‘Unruly Guest' to ‘Good Companion': The Gendered Meanings of Early Radio in the Home; 10: Mother's Little Helper: Programmes, Personalities and the Working Day; 11: Justifying Injustice: Broadcasters' Accounts of Inequality in Radio; 12: Gender, Fantasy and Radio Consumption: An Ethnographic Case Study; 13: Galway's Pirate Women; 14: Limited Talk; 15: On Air/Off Air: Defining Women's Radio Space in European Women's Community Radio; 3: Women working in radio; 3: Introduction; 16: Getting in and Getting on: Women and Radio Management at the BBC; 17: The Long Goodbye; 18: The Nature of Glass: Participation of Women in the Irish Independent Radio Industry; 19: The Last Bastion: How Women Become Music Presenters in UK Radio; 20: Women in Radio News: Making a Difference?; 21: Sound Advice for Women who want to Work in Radio; 4: Contacts and resources