Listening while doing things: Radio, gender and older women

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Radio Journal Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI:10.1386/rjao_00025_1

Sanna Inthorn

引用次数: 3

Abstract

This article investigates the role of radio in older women’s everyday lives. Based on interviews with listeners in Britain and Germany, it argues that patriarchy structures women’s radio listening into old age. The women who participated in this study accommodated their radio listening to their role as housewives, deliberately choosing content that does not distract from their work and making sure they do not invade their husbands’ space with radio sound. Across their radio day, older women move in and out of different forms of listening, characterized by different levels of attentiveness. They enjoy radio as background noise to domestic labour, but they also use radio as a resource for identity work and a critical engagement with gender politics.

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边听边做事:广播、性别和老年妇女

这篇文章调查了收音机在老年妇女日常生活中的作用。基于对英国和德国听众的采访，该报告认为，父权制使女性收听广播进入老年。参与这项研究的女性根据自己作为家庭主妇的角色来收听收音机，她们故意选择不会干扰工作的内容，并确保她们不会用收音机的声音侵入丈夫的空间。在她们收听电台的日子里，老年妇女以不同的方式倾听和退出，其特点是注意力水平不同。她们喜欢把广播作为家务劳动的背景噪音，但她们也把广播作为身份认同工作和批判性地参与性别政治的资源。

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Radio Journal Arts and Humanities-Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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1.50

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期刊介绍： Radio Journal publishes critical analyses of radio and sound media across a variety of platforms, from broadcast to podcast and all in between. Articles focus on both historical and contemporary issues in sound-based journalism and media studies. We look for work that explores the production, circulation and reception of radio and creative soundwork, and encourage a wide range of international and interdisciplinary perspectives. Radio Journal welcomes scholarship from early career researchers as well as internationally renowned scholars. It also publishes reviews of recent publications in the field of radio and sound studies. Radio Journal is edited from the US and Australia and has an international scope. It is a refereed publication; all research articles undergo rigorous double-blind peer review. The editors will review other contributions. The process normally takes three months to complete.