The Centre for Media History warmly invites you to the book launch of Gender and Media in the Broadcast Age: Women’s Radio Programming at the BBC, CBC, and ABC, by its Deputy Director Dr Justine Lloyd. This event will take place on Thursday 24 October 3-4pm at the Macquarie University Staff Café, 23 Wally's Walk, Macquarie Park NSW 2113.

The book will be launched by Dr Rebecca Sheehan, Gender Studies, Department of Sociology, Macquarie University

About Gender and Media in the Broadcast Age

The 20th century was a time of rapid expansion in media industries, as well as of accelerating demands for equality and recognition for women. While women's agency has typically been defined through the domestic sphere, the introduction of media into the home destabilised firm boundaries between public and private spheres.  Gender and Media in the Broadcast Age demonstrates how women as media producers and audiences in three countries with public service broadcasters (UK, Canada and Australia) have contributed to changes in our understandings of public and private. Justine Lloyd offers a new way of understanding how tremendous changes in social definitions of gender roles played out in media forms worldwide during this period through the notion of 'intimate geographies'. Women's participation in media continues to be a key challenge to notions of the public sphere and the book concludes that profound changes initiated in the broadcast era are unfinished in the age of digital media. Lloyd therefore provides rich and valuable evidence of the dynamic relationship between media texts, producers and audiences that is relevant to contemporary debates about a growing gender 'apartheid' in a mediated culture.

Image from the event: Dr Justine Lloyd in conversation with Dr Rebecca Sheehan

"In this brilliantly ambitious book Justine Lloyd weaves together theoretical insight and radio stories from three continents to reveal in high definition the complex patterning of public and private life in the interplay of gender politics and public service broadcasting." Kate Lacey, Professor of Media History and Theory, University of Sussex, UK

Centre for Media History Deputy Director Dr Justine Lloyd