Gender and Early Television: Mapping Women's Role in Emerging US and British Media, 1850-1950

Between the nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century television transformed from an idea to an institution. In Gender and Early Television, Sarah Arnold traces women's relationship to the new medium of television across this period in the UK and USA. She argues that women played a crucial role in its development both as producers and as audiences long before the 'golden age' of television in the 1950s.

Beginning with the emergence of media entertainment in the mid-nineteenth century ...