“Purifying the Upper Atmosphere”: Women’s Work in Early Radio, 1905-1913

This essay argues that between 1905 and 1913, female commercial radio operators deployed a range of complicated and contradictory arguments to establish credibility in the new, male-dominated communications field. Women envisioned early radio as a utopian space that would renegotiate gender roles in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anne Gessler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CBS Open Journals 2014-02-01
Series:American Studies in Scandinavia
Online Access:https://192.168.7.25:443/index.php/assc/article/view/5152