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By Bonnie J. Dow

In 1970, ABC, CBS, and NBC--the “Big 3” of the pre-cable tv era--discovered the feminist flow. From the famed sit-in at Ladies’ domestic Journal to multi-part characteristic tales at the movement's rules and leaders, nightly information publicizes lined feminism greater than in any yr earlier than or considering, bringing women's liberation into American homes.

 

In Watching Women's Liberation, 1970: Feminism's Pivotal 12 months at the community News, Bonnie J. Dow makes use of case experiences of key media occasions to delve into the methods nationwide television information mediated the emergence of feminism's moment wave. First legitimized as a tremendous tale by way of print media, the feminist circulation won broadcast cognizance because the networks’ eagerness to get in at the motion used to be observed by means of feminists’ efforts to take advantage of nationwide media for his or her personal reasons. Dow chronicles the stipulations that brought about feminism's new visibility and analyzes the verbal and visible thoughts of broadcast information discourses that attempted to make experience of the movement.

 

Groundbreaking and choked with element, Watching Women's Liberation, 1970 exhibits how feminism went mainstream--and what it received and misplaced at the way.

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