Mary Irwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Irwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Irwin |
| SIGNATURE | IRWIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Margaret University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1948 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Laura Minor, Reclaiming Female Authorship in UK Television Comedy
Easy living: The rise of the home office
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Why Harry Met Sally: Subversive Jewishness, Anglo Christian Power and the Rhetoric of Modern Love
‘Why Harry met Sally: Subversive Jewishness, Anglo Christian Power and the Rhetoric of Modern Love’ offers a rich and engrossing cultural narrative of literary, stage and screen representations of
Career Girls: Women at work in Compact and The Rag Trade
Television representations of the British postwar working woman have been afforded little consideration in British historical television scholarship. In its exploration of two early 1960s female ensemble television series set in the workplace, Compact (1962–1965) and The Rag Trade (1961–1963), this article makes a significant feminist intervention in the reinstatement of this neglected figure into extant critical television histories. It also dem…
BBC's Wednesday Magazine and Arts Television for Women
Wednesday Magazine (1958–1963) was an innovative BBC television afternoon arts and culture strand produced by the specialist BBC women's programme unit, which had been built up and nurtured by the first dedicated head of women's programmes Doreen Stephens, who was appointed in 1953. Stephens was responsible for the development of a diverse and extensive range of women's programming; highly ambitious in the offering that it presented to its female…
That's the Last Time I Play the Tart for You, Jerry: Penelope Keith and British Television Situation Comedy
Women's historical role in British sitcom has been critically regarded as both limited and limiting. Yet, any exploration of the historical representation of women in British situation comedy reveals that women have frequently been cast in leading roles. Penelope Keith is a key figure in any consideration of women and television situation comedy, and her long successful career is explored in this article. The re-evaluation of the television comed…
Researching the History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947–1989
This report details the aims, methodology and selected findings of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded project ‘A History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947–1989’, running between 2010 and 2013 at the University of Warwick and De Montfort University. Here, we consider the difficulties of conducting historical television research and the ways in which we have tried to use a method which is attentive to production research,…
American Universities and Colleges
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Easy living: The rise of the home office
Reviewing Elizabeth A. Patton’s engaging and resonant study Easy Living: The Rise of the Home Office in a period of a global pandemic makes very clear that themes and concerns which appear to be ve
That's the Last Time I Play the Tart for You, Jerry: Penelope Keith and British Television Situation Comedy
Women's historical role in British sitcom has been critically regarded as both limited and limiting. Yet, any exploration of the historical representation of women in British situation comedy reveals that women have frequently been cast in leading roles. Penelope Keith is a key figure in any consideration of women and television situation comedy, and her long successful career is explored in this article. The re-evaluation of the television comed…
Researching the History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947–1989
This report details the aims, methodology and selected findings of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded project ‘A History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947–1989’, running between 2010 and 2013 at the University of Warwick and De Montfort University. Here, we consider the difficulties of conducting historical television research and the ways in which we have tried to use a method which is attentive to production research,…
American Universities and Colleges
Indispensable in Counseling
American Universities and Colleges
Researching the History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947–1989
This report details the aims, methodology and selected findings of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded project ‘A History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947–1989’, running between 2010 and 2013 at the University of Warwick and De Montfort University. Here, we consider the difficulties of conducting historical television research and the ways in which we have tried to use a method which is attentive to production research,…
Career Girls: Women at work in Compact and The Rag Trade
Television representations of the British postwar working woman have been afforded little consideration in British historical television scholarship. In its exploration of two early 1960s female ensemble television series set in the workplace, Compact (1962–1965) and The Rag Trade (1961–1963), this article makes a significant feminist intervention in the reinstatement of this neglected figure into extant critical television histories. It also dem…
BBC's Wednesday Magazine and Arts Television for Women
Wednesday Magazine (1958–1963) was an innovative BBC television afternoon arts and culture strand produced by the specialist BBC women's programme unit, which had been built up and nurtured by the first dedicated head of women's programmes Doreen Stephens, who was appointed in 1953. Stephens was responsible for the development of a diverse and extensive range of women's programming; highly ambitious in the offering that it presented to its female…
That's the Last Time I Play the Tart for You, Jerry: Penelope Keith and British Television Situation Comedy
Women's historical role in British sitcom has been critically regarded as both limited and limiting. Yet, any exploration of the historical representation of women in British situation comedy reveals that women have frequently been cast in leading roles. Penelope Keith is a key figure in any consideration of women and television situation comedy, and her long successful career is explored in this article. The re-evaluation of the television comed…
Why Harry Met Sally: Subversive Jewishness, Anglo Christian Power and the Rhetoric of Modern Love
‘Why Harry met Sally: Subversive Jewishness, Anglo Christian Power and the Rhetoric of Modern Love’ offers a rich and engrossing cultural narrative of literary, stage and screen representations of
Easy living: The rise of the home office
Reviewing Elizabeth A. Patton’s engaging and resonant study Easy Living: The Rise of the Home Office in a period of a global pandemic makes very clear that themes and concerns which appear to be ve
Laura Minor, Reclaiming Female Authorship in UK Television Comedy
Sociology (8 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Media studies (5 works) · History (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)