Radio and the Gendered Soundscape
Women and Broadcasting in Argentina and Uruguay, 1930–1950

'By opening up the cultural history of Latin American radio to English-speaking readers, Christine Ehrick has made an enormous contribution to scholarship in itself; when combined with her nuanced and detailed focus on women's voices and the way that gender operates on the airwaves, she has produced a work that will resound across many fields. Those interested in both old and new media, in cultural history, in gender, and in sound studies must read this account of radio rioplatense, from Radio Femenina, the first all-female radio station, to the radio pioneers Silvia Guerrico, Niní Marshall, Nené Cascallar, and Eva Perón.' Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin, Madison

'This is a groundbreaking study. Christine Ehrick's focus on gender revitalizes the historiography of Latin American radio, while her analysis of such neglected figures as Silvia Guerrico and Nené Cascallar, as well as her innovative reconsideration of Eva Perón's radio career, contribute substantially to our understanding of Argentine and Uruguayan political and cultural history. Most impressively, by attending consistently to women's voices - and not just their words - Ehrick has set a methodological example that other historians of the media would do well to follow.' Matt Karush, George Mason University, Virginia

'Ehrick's print archive is impressive, and it allows her to reconstruct not just a remarkably detailed history of female broadcasters and scriptwriters, but also a complex portrait of radio's transnational politics … Ehrick's book is not only an important contribution to feminist history in Latin American and radio studies more generally, but it points to the urgent need for further studies of the transnational politics of radio.' Tom McEnaney, Sound Studies