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The satellite sex : the media and women's issues in English Canada, 1966-1971

Title: The satellite sex : the media and women's issues in English Canada, 1966-1971 / Barbara M. Freeman.
Author: Freeman, Barbara M., 1947-
Publication: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2001.

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Description

xv, 347 pages : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm

Summary

"In this provocative new book - the first one to examine print and broadcast news coverage of women's issues in English Canada - Barbara Freeman explores what the media were saying about women and their concerns during an important period in our history - and why." "The Satellite Sex is both a social history and a media case study of the years 1966-1971, when the feminist movement began once more to gather support. Women wanted equal treatment under the law, and they wanted rights they had not gained when they won the vote many years earlier. In response, the Canadian government appointed a federal inquiry on the status of women and hundreds of women came forward to talk to the Commission about the injustices they experienced at school, at work, in public life, in their homes, and even in their bedrooms." "The Satellite Sex demonstrates that the print and broadcast media coverage of women's issues at that time were much more complex and fragmented than revealed by research in the United States on the same era. This book, released thirty years after the Canadian Commission presented its report, also raises questions about the lack of strong feminist voices in today's news media."--Jacket

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History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-340) and index.

Contents

1. "Democracy," "Equal Opportunities" and "Merit": Selling Women's Issues to the Media 19 -- 2. "Top Perch Out for Newshens": Journalistic "Objectivity" on Trial 41 -- 3. "Ladies Reminded They're Women": Framing Feminine/Feminist 73 -- 4. "Accept Us as Individuals in Our Own Right": News of "Equality" 97 -- 5. "Please Don't Price Me Out of My Status!" The Media and "Conflict" in the "Marital Status" Debate 121 -- 6. "Why the Hell Can't We Provide Daycare?" The Media and the "Working Mother" 145 -- 7. "Nobody's Going to Tell Me Whether I'll Have a Baby": The Language of "Freedom of Choice" 165 -- 8. "North or South, It's All the Same": The Media and Aboriginal Women 187 -- 9. "Too Little ... Too Late": The Coverage of the Commission's Report, 1970 211.

ISBN

0889203709
9780889203709

OCLC

ocm46661384
46661384
SCSB-1217931

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Princeton University Library