Gender, Media and Voice

Communicative Injustice and Public Speech

Jilly Boyce Kay (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

VII, 193 Seiten

2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-47286-3 (ISBN)

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This book explores the increasing imperatives to speak up, to speak out, and to 'find one's voice' in contemporary media culture. It considers how, for women in particular, this seems to constitute a radical break with the historical idealization of silence and demureness. However, the author argues that there is a growing and pernicious gap between the seductive promise of voice, and voice as it actually exists. While brutal instruments such as the ducking stool and scold's bridle are no longer in use to punish women's speech, Kay proposes that communicative injustice now operates in much more insidious ways. The wide-ranging chapters explore the mediated 'voices' of women such as Monica Lewinsky, Hannah Gadsby, Diane Abbott, and Yassmin Abdel-Magied, as well as the problems and possibilities of gossip, nagging, and the 'traumatised voice' in television talk shows. It critiques the optimistic claims about the 'unleashing' of women's voices post-#MeToo and examines the ways that women's speech continues to be trivialized and devalued. Communicative justice, the author argues, is not about empowering individuals to 'find their voice', but about collectively transforming the whole communicative terrain.

Jilly Boyce Kay is lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, UK, specializing in feminist theory. She is co-editor of The Wedding Spectacle Across Contemporary Media and Culture, and has also published on feminist anger, the suffragettes, reality television, and women's television histories. She edits the Cultural Commons section in the European Journal of Cultural Studies .

Chapter 1: Introduction: Gender, voice and value.- Chapter 2: The democratic possibilities of television talk.- Chapter 3: Intimate voices: television talk and the re-gendering of the public sphere.- Chapter 4: 'Pink ghettos': rethinking women's talk programming.- Chapter 5: Speaking bitterness: feminism and televisual consciousness-raising.- Chapter 6: 'Out of place': women's talk in political debate programmes.- Chapter 7: 'One of the lads': comedy panel shows and the gendering of 'banter'.- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Re-valuing voice

Erscheinungsdatum	23.07.2020
Zusatzinfo	VII, 193 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	396 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	Gender • Inequality • media • talk shows • Television • Voice
ISBN-10	3-030-47286-8 / 3030472868
ISBN-13	978-3-030-47286-3 / 9783030472863
Zustand	Neuware