Resultaten voor 'kate murphy'

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1. Kate , Murphy
Behind the Wireless
Engels | Paperback | 9781137491725 | 2016 | 312 Pagina's
Behind the Wireless tells the story of women at the BBC in the 1920s and 30s. Broadcasting was brand new in Britain and the BBC developed without many of the overt discriminatory practices commonplace at the time. Women were employed at all levels, except the very top, for instance as secretaries, documentary makers, advertising representatives, and librarians. Three women held Director level posts, Hilda Matheson (Director of Talks), Mary Somerville (Director of School Broadcasting), and Isa Benzie (Foreign Director). Women also produced the programmes aimed at female listeners and brought women broadcasters to the microphone. There was an ethos of equality and the chance to rise through the ranks from accounts clerk to accompanist. But lurking behind the façade of modernity were hidden inequalities in recruitment, pay, and promotion and in 1932 a marriage bar was introduced. Kate Murphy examines how and why the interwar BBC created new opportunities for women.
€ 76,93
1. Kate , Murphy
Fears and Fantasies
Engels | Hardback / gebonden | 9781433109508 | 2010 | 268 Pagina's
Fears and Fantasies: Modernity, Gender, and the Rural-Urban Divide explores the ways in which fantasies about returning to, or revitalising, rural life helped to define Western modernity in the early twentieth century. Scholarship addressing responses to modernity has focused on urban space and fears about the effects of city life; few studies have considered the ¿rural¿ to be as critical as the ¿urban¿ in understanding modernity. This book argues that the rural is just as significant a reference point as the urban in discourses about modernity. Using a rich Australian case study to illuminate broader international themes, it focuses on the role of gender in ideas about the rural-urban divide, showing how the country was held up against the ¿unnatural¿ city as a space in which men were more ¿masculine¿ and women more ¿feminine¿. Fears and Fantasies is an innovative and important contribution to scholarship in the fields of history and gender studies.
€ 102,85