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The years following World War I in Germany saw the simultaneous
emergence of radio as a public medium entering the private sphere
of the home and the large-scale emergence of women entering the
public sphere of politics and production. In Feminine Frequencies,
Kate Lacey examines the mutual implications of these important
developments and provides a distinctive analysis of radio in the
Weimar Republic and the Third Reich which not only restores women
to the history of radio, but identifies and investigates the impact
of gender politics on the development of German broadcasting. At
the heart of the book is an exploration of radio programming for
women from the mid-1920s to the end of World War II. Largely
through the Frauenfunk, radio transformed women's domestic life,
mediated women's experience of modernity and war, and worked to
integrate women into the modern consumer culture, the national
economy, and eventually the "national community" of the
Volksgemeinschaft. At the same time, decisions about how that
programming was to operate influenced the way radio was conceived
as a broadcast rather than an interactive technology. Ultimately,
the cultural practice and propaganda of the Third Reich were
anticipated in and enabled by the legacy of broadcasting in the
Weimar Republic. Feminine Frequencies confronts the consequences of
a missed opportunity to harness the democratic potential of a new
medium of communication. Based on original archival research, and
interdisciplinary in approach, this book will be of great interest
to students and scholars in German studies, women's studies, and
media studies. Kate Lacey is Lecturer in Media Studies, School of
European Studies, University of Sussex.
The years following World War I in Germany saw the simultaneous
emergence of radio as a public medium entering the private sphere
of the home and the large-scale emergence of women entering the
public sphere of politics and production. In Feminine Frequencies,
Kate Lacey examines the mutual implications of these important
developments and provides a distinctive analysis of radio in the
Weimar Republic and the Third Reich which not only restores women
to the history of radio, but identifies and investigates the impact
of gender politics on the development of German broadcasting. At
the heart of the book is an exploration of radio programming for
women from the mid-1920s to the end of World War II. Largely
through the Frauenfunk, radio transformed women's domestic life,
mediated women's experience of modernity and war, and worked to
integrate women into the modern consumer culture, the national
economy, and eventually the national community of the
Volksgemeinschaft. At the same time, decisions about how that
programming was to operate influenced the way radio was conceived
as a broadcast rather than an interactive technology. Ultimately,
the cultural practice and propaganda of the Third Reich were
anticipated in and enabled by the legacy of broadcasting in the
Weimar Republic. Feminine Frequencies confronts the consequences of
a missed opportunity to harness the democratic potential of a new
medium of communication. Based on original archival research, and
interdisciplinary in approach, this book will be of great interest
to students and scholars in German studies, women's studies, and
media studies. Kate Lacey is Lecturer in Media Studies, School of
European Studies, University of Sussex.
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