Jilly Boyce Kay is lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, UK, specializing in feminist theory. She is co-editor of The Wedding Spectacle Across Contemporary Media and Culture, and has also published on feminist anger, the suffragettes, reality television, and women’s television histories. She edits the Cultural Commons section in the European Journal of Cultural Studies.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Gender, voice and value.- Chapter 2: The democratic possibilities of television talk.- Chapter 3: Intimate voices: television talk and the re-gendering of the public sphere.- Chapter 4: ‘Pink ghettos’: rethinking women’s talk programming.- Chapter 5: Speaking bitterness: feminism and televisual consciousness-raising.- Chapter 6: ‘Out of place’: women’s talk in political debate programmes.- Chapter 7: ‘One of the lads’: comedy panel shows and the gendering of ‘banter’.- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Re-valuing voice

Jilly Boyce Kay is lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, UK, specializing in feminist theory. She is co-editor of The Wedding Spectacle Across Contemporary Media and Culture, and has also published on feminist anger, the suffragettes, reality television, and women’s television histories. She edits the Cultural Commons section in the European Journal of Cultural Studies.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Gender, voice and value.- Chapter 2: The democratic possibilities of television talk.- Chapter 3: Intimate voices: television talk and the re-gendering of the public sphere.- Chapter 4: ‘Pink ghettos’: rethinking women’s talk programming.- Chapter 5: Speaking bitterness: feminism and televisual consciousness-raising.- Chapter 6: ‘Out of place’: women’s talk in political debate programmes.- Chapter 7: ‘One of the lads’: comedy panel shows and the gendering of ‘banter’.- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Re-valuing voice

Jilly Boyce Kay is lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, UK, specializing in feminist theory. She is co-editor of The Wedding Spectacle Across Contemporary Media and Culture, and has also published on feminist anger, the suffragettes, reality television, and women’s television histories. She edits the Cultural Commons section in the European Journal of Cultural Studies.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Gender, voice and value.- Chapter 2: The democratic possibilities of television talk.- Chapter 3: Intimate voices: television talk and the re-gendering of the public sphere.- Chapter 4: ‘Pink ghettos’: rethinking women’s talk programming.- Chapter 5: Speaking bitterness: feminism and televisual consciousness-raising.- Chapter 6: ‘Out of place’: women’s talk in political debate programmes.- Chapter 7: ‘One of the lads’: comedy panel shows and the gendering of ‘banter’.- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Re-valuing voice