{"title":"\"<i>Woman's Hour</i> or Mother's Hour\": postnatal depression narratives, treatment and reception on BBC radio, 1946-1985.","authors":"Fabiola Creed","doi":"10.1080/14680777.2025.2468897","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14680777.2025.2468897","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Launched in 1946, <i>Woman's Hour</i> became one of Britain's first women-organised radio programmes, predominantly targeting mothers. In 1960, <i>Woman's Hour</i> transmitted the first mass media broadcast on \"childbirth depression\" in Britain; however, such discussions only became standard on <i>Woman's Hour</i> in the twenty-first century. This article explores why the BBC and <i>Woman's Hour</i> developed an interest in maternal mental health. It then evaluates how <i>Woman's Hour</i> approached the originally \"taboo\" topic by comparing the narratives (doctors, women and \"husbands\"), treatments (medical, pharmacological, and hormonal), and reception (absent to varied) pertaining to three postnatal depression features produced in 1960, 1974, and 1985. Most researchers of motherhood explore print press and increasingly television sources, yet radio remains overlooked. This article maps how this medium navigated and reflected key changes in Britain's gendered workplace and family dynamics. The article builds on and contributes to the history of changing attitudes to motherhood and maternal mental illness, radio as a form of health communication, the influence of women's voices, and medical professionals' expanding responsibilities in post-World War Two Britain. This will appeal to scholars from many disciplines, including history, gender, culture, and feminist media studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":47795,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Media Studies","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7618172/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145187229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indigenous women as agents of environmental change: a study of selected Indian ecodocumentaries","authors":"Sakshi Yadav, Sushila Shekhawat","doi":"10.1080/14680777.2024.2395973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2395973","url":null,"abstract":"Mainstream feminism has always revolved around the experiences of white women and has failed to acknowledge the plight of indigenous women who were subjugated to both patriarchy and colonialism. A ...","PeriodicalId":47795,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Media Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142256196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annalise Baines, Hyunjin Seo, Darcey Altschwager, Matthew Blomberg, Bernard Schuster, Megha Ramaswamy
{"title":"COVID-19 pandemic and women transitioning from incarceration: a study of online health information seeking among underserved and marginalized women","authors":"Annalise Baines, Hyunjin Seo, Darcey Altschwager, Matthew Blomberg, Bernard Schuster, Megha Ramaswamy","doi":"10.1080/14680777.2024.2400486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2400486","url":null,"abstract":"Based on interviews with 118 women recently released from incarceration in the U.S. Midwest, this study examines changes in their online health information consumptions and evaluations throughout t...","PeriodicalId":47795,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Media Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142256197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Believability: Sexual violence, media, and the politics of doubt","authors":"Meenakshi Gigi Durham","doi":"10.1080/14680777.2024.2396495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2396495","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Feminist Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":47795,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Media Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142256198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Getting it wrong","authors":"Sarah Banet-Weiser","doi":"10.1080/14680777.2024.2394521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2394521","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Feminist Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":47795,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Media Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142256200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Porous feminism: leaking technologies and ambivalent attachments","authors":"Ali Na","doi":"10.1080/14680777.2024.2400473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2400473","url":null,"abstract":"Fears, for many, have been actualized during the global pandemic. Working through borders and geographical crossings, this article performs a constellation of my anxieties about race, culture, and ...","PeriodicalId":47795,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Media Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142256199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Having an unfair advantage” vs “playing by the Rules”: media discourses of trans Women’s participation in the Olympics","authors":"Anna Kavoura, Olu Jenzen","doi":"10.1080/14680777.2024.2395965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2395965","url":null,"abstract":"This study reviews UK news media discourses surrounding New Zealand’s weightlifter Laurel Hubbard’s participation in the 2020 Olympics as the first ever publicly open transgender woman to compete a...","PeriodicalId":47795,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Media Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142212002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bolette B. Blaagaard, Stine W. Adrian, Signe A. P. Nordsted
{"title":"How journalism forgets: on the journalistic representation of colonial biopower in Greenland","authors":"Bolette B. Blaagaard, Stine W. Adrian, Signe A. P. Nordsted","doi":"10.1080/14680777.2024.2400462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2400462","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a postcolonial and feminist analysis of 44 newspaper articles published between 1965 and 2022 about “the coil campaign” in Greenland, which fitted Greenlandic Inuit women with...","PeriodicalId":47795,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Media Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142212003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who owns womanhood? ‘Churails,’ mimicry, hybridity, and the reclamation of gender roles in postcolonial Pakistan","authors":"Shazrah Salam, Rauha Salam-Salmaoui","doi":"10.1080/14680777.2024.2394841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2394841","url":null,"abstract":"In postcolonial Pakistan, gender ideology is often oversimplified through a Eurocentric feminist lens. The web series “Churails” (2020), directed by Abbasi, subverts this narrative by exploring the...","PeriodicalId":47795,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Media Studies","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142256234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Femininity opposition and revolution in the Islamic Republic of Iran; an analysis from twitter","authors":"Arash Beidollahkhani, Mahboobeh Farkhari","doi":"10.1080/14680777.2024.2394840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2394840","url":null,"abstract":"In Islamic Republic of Iran, femininity encounters a distinct conflict with the prevailing political system discourse. The rise of political Islam after the Islamic revolution has resulted in exten...","PeriodicalId":47795,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Media Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142256235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}