Watching Women's Liberation, 1970

Feminism's Pivotal Year on the Network News

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20032570
AutoresBonnie J Dow (autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Páginas256
Data de publicação2014-10-15
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoWatching Women's Liberation 1970 (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/illinois/9780252038563.001.0001
OpenAlexW4243030262
Open LibraryOL28535525M
ISBN9780252038563
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13

In 1970, ABC, CBS, and NBC—the “Big Three” of the pre-cable television era—discovered the feminist movement. From the famed sit-in at Ladies' Home Journal to multi-part feature stories on the movement's ideas and leaders, nightly news broadcasts covered feminism more than in any year before or since, bringing women's liberation into American homes. This book uses case studies of key media events to delve into the ways national TV news mediated the emergence of feminism's second wave. First legitimized as a big story by print media, the feminist movement gained broadcast attention as the networks' eagerness to get in on the action was accompanied by feminists' efforts to use national media for their own purposes. The book chronicles the conditions that precipitated feminism's new visibility and analyzes the verbal and visual strategies of broadcast news discourses that tried to make sense of the movement. Groundbreaking and packed with detail, this book shows how feminism went mainstream, and what it gained and lost on the way

Action (physics) · Feminism · Feminist movement · Mainstream · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law · Television broadcasting of news · Women in television · Women's rights