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Watching Women's Liberation, 1970: Feminism's Pivotal Year on the Network News
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Bonnie J. Dow (Author)
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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.
In Watching Women's Liberation, 1970: Feminism's Pivotal Year on the Network News, Bonnie J. Dow 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. Dow 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, Watching Women's Liberation, 1970 shows how feminism went mainstream--and what it gained and lost on the way. 16 black and white photographs CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
About the Author
Bonnie J. Dow is an associate professor and chair of communication studies and an associate professor of women's and gender studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement Since 1970.
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- Contributor: Bonnie J. Dow
- Imprint: University of Illinois Press
- ISBN13: 9780252038563
- Number of Pages: 256
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x20mm
- Packaged Weight: 481
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Release Date: 2014-10-30
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Bonnie J. Dow is an associate professor and chair of communication studies and an associate professor of women's and gender studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement Since 1970.
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