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 fminin, 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 wellresearched 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.
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
Genevive A. Bonin-Labelle has been involved in various facets of community, commercial, and public radio since her high school debut as a DJ. Today, her passion continues through her teaching, research, and occasional guest appearances on local radio shows.
