2024/11/19 by Kristin Skoog, Alexander Badenoch · 2 voices · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
paper · doi:10.1080/09612025.2024.2415735
openalex publication_date 2024/11/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
Almost from the start of radio broadcasting, the International Council of Women (ICW) took particular interest in the medium, founding a Broadcasting Committee in 1936. This article examines the organisation’s approach to radio as it emerged in the late 1920s and 1930s. It explores these developments through the identities of three women who steered the ICW’s broadcasting work: the internationalist French-American Laura Dreyfus-Barney; the Swedish journalist and women’s rights campaigner Margareta von Konow; and the ‘model fascist’ Italian mathematician Maria Castellani. It reveals the range and scope of ICW feminisms, the roles of its members as both activists and professionals, how women’s radio expertise was defined, and, finally, how radio broadcasting became a key part of ICW strategy.