| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Invisible Stars: A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting. By Donna L. Halper. (Armonk, N.Y.: Sharpe, 2001. viii, 331 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-7656-0581-3.)

I am old enough to remember being advised at a school career day not to pursue broadcast news. The reason? Women's voices were not authoritative, and therefore the credibility of news those voices might deliver would suffer. 1

That is one element of the curious history of women's roles in broadcasting that Donna L. Halper's book recounts. Although it is not without faults, this sweeping work pulls together disparate elements in radio and television history, illuminating the development of those pervasive media as it recounts the history of women's involvement. 2

Halper, an adjunct professor at Emerson College and a radio consultant, takes the reader decade by decade through all the roles women played in the rise of broadcast media, from female ham radio operators through the novelty of wireless and radio drama to the heights of network news and entertainment programming. Hers is an extensively researched and detailed history of women in broadcasting at all levels, beginning when the technology began. . . .

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