Women in Radio: Unfiltered Voices offers a fascinating look at the women who built their career in broadcasting, the issues specific to them, and their contributions to their field. Each story paints a unique portrait of a person’s or a group’s legacy to the radio industry.
Who are, au féminin, the legends who shaped radio in Canada? What did they contribute locally, regionally, and nationally? How was their experience in radio broadcasting different from that of their male counterparts?
Women in Radio: Unfiltered Voices offers an overview of the women who built careers in the Canadian radio industry—yet whose contributions have often been overlooked simply because they were women.
This collection of stories highlights the multi-faceted contributions women broadcasters made to their field and explores issues specific to them. Academic research, interviews, personal reflections and accounts, historical reviews, and hybrid texts combine neatly in this eclectic yet well–researched edited volume, to reflect the fast-paced world of radio broadcasting.
Whether through storytelling, direct quotes, or quasi transcriptions best read aloud, readers come away with a real sense of the aural nature of radio, of the voice unaccompanied, of the pure spoken word and how it differs from that of the printed word.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Geneviève A. Bonin-Labelle
Decades of Radio: Contributions by Women
1 - Mrs. A: The Hardest Working Woman in Radio
Linda Kay (in memoriam)
2 - A Desk in the Corridor: Marjorie McEnaney and Married Women in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1940s–1960s
Barbara M. Freeman
3 - What History Teaches Us about the Role of Women in Radio
Gertrude J. Robinson
4 - Writing with Sound: A Learning Path
Chantal Dumas
Portraits of Women in Canadian Radio
5 - Elizabeth Long and Women’s Interests on the CBC
Anita Marie Slominska
6 - Being More than a Voice
Patti Schmidt
7 - Off on the Radio: Interview with Carol Off, Co-host of CBC’s “As It Happens”
Constance Dilley
8 - Navigating a Career in CBC News and Current Affairs: A Profile of Jennifer McGuire
Ross E. Perigoe (in memoriam)
9 - Information and Public Affairs For Women Resolutely Convinced
Lise Millette
Women, the Profession, and P(p)olitics
10 - The Fight for Credibility: An Interview with Pierre Dufault and Pierre Chamberland
Lise Millette
11 - Radio Formations: Ways for Women to Develop Audio Skills in and out of Community Radio
Andra McCartney (in memoriam)
12 - Imaginary Women, Imaginary Audience: Gender and Top 40 Radio in Montréal
Christine Maki
13 - The Politics of Gender in Canadian Radio
Gregory Taylor
Radio Made Different: Diversity, Creativity, and Women
14 - Voicing Older Women Live: Accessibility, the OWL Collective, and the “Revolutionary” Potential of Campus-Community Radio in Canada
Angela Wilson
15 - Three Helens: Canadian Women in International Farm Radio
Helen Hambly, Helen Aitkin, and Tanis McKnight-Howe
16 - Gendered Pirates: Women’s Roles in Temporary Autonomous Radio
Marian van der Zon
17 - Venus on Venus: CKUT’s Women’s Collective Music Show Dishes on Feminist Radio
Anna Leventhal, Catherine McInnis, and Angela Wilson
18 - WINGS of Change
Sophie Toupin
19 - A Woman, Radio, and the Developing Countries
Lise Millette
Concluding Remarks
Geneviève A. Bonin-Labelle
Bibliography
Author Biography
