‘Edited and Approved by Women for Maximum Benefit of all Readers’: Newsprint Journalism, the International Women's Year and the Remaking of a Gendered National Public in 1970s Ghana

IF 0.4 3区 历史学 Q2 HISTORY
Kate Skinner, Jovia Salifu, Akosua Adomako Ampofo
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During the International Women's Year (IWY) of 1975, United Nations bodies made concerted efforts to ensure global awareness and understanding of the IWY aims of equality, peace and development, via the mass media. In this article, we engage with these strategies of global information distribution from the vantage point of Ghana, West Africa. Drawing from interviews with women journalists and examples from the women's pages of the national state-owned Daily Graphic newspaper, we argue that the onset of the IWY presented an important opportunity for women living under the constraints of military rule. A small but determined group of journalists capitalised on a longer history of readers writing into newspapers, and on lower levels of government surveillance of women's pages. Working with and through multi-layered forms of address, they adapted the homey, gossipy women's pages and turned them into spaces of engagement between men and women as co-citizens. During the IWY, connections were forged between international events and agendas and ‘domestic issues’. By hosting older debates about widowhood, inheritance and polygyny, and newer debates about family planning, formal education and employment, the women's pages positioned Ghanaian women as a key constituency in national development, but also enabled more assertive critiques of men's privileges.

为所有读者的最大利益而由妇女编辑和批准":新闻出版、国际妇女年与 20 世纪 70 年代加纳性别化国家公众的重塑
在 1975 年国际妇女年(IWY)期间,联合国各机构齐心协力,通过大众传媒确保全 球认识和了解国际妇女年的平等、和平与发展目标。在本文中,我们将从西非加纳的视角来探讨这些全球信息传播战略。通过对女记者的采访和全国性国有报纸《每日图片报》妇女版的实例,我们认为,国际妇女年的到来为生活在军事统治束缚下的妇女提供了一个重要的机会。读者向报纸投稿的历史较长,政府对女性版面的监控程度较低,这为人数不多但意志坚定的记者群体提供了机会。他们利用并通过多层次的地址形式,对充满家庭气息、八卦新闻的女性版面进行了改编,使其成为男女共同参与的空间。在国际妇女年期间,国际事件和议程与 "国内问题 "之间建立了联系。通过举办关于守寡、继承和一夫多妻制的老式辩论以及关于计划生育、正规教育和就业的新式辩论,妇女版面将加纳妇女定位为国家发展的主要支持者,同时也使她们能够对男性的特权提出更坚决的批评。
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Gender and History
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期刊介绍: Gender & History is now established as the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations. Spanning epochs and continents, Gender & History examines changing conceptions of gender, and maps the dialogue between femininities, masculinities and their historical contexts. The journal publishes rigorous and readable articles both on particular episodes in gender history and on broader methodological questions which have ramifications for the discipline as a whole.
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