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082			_aPamphlet P 92 .A3 .C85 /2005
110			_aMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies.
245			_aCultured men, uncultured women : an exploration of the gendered hierarchy of taste governing Afghan radio / by Sarah Kamal.
260			_a[S.l.] : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, c2005.
300			_a105 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
500			_aCover title.
500			_a“February 2005”.
500			_a“Includes Bibliography”—(p. 100-105).
500			_a“University of Waterloo, Canada, 1999”—title page.
500			_aAbstract: “After years of strict bans on the media, local radio in post-Taliban Afghanistan is undergoing an intense period of reconstruction. This thesis uses a multi-sited ethnographic investigation to examine local Afghan radio's various relationships with women in Afghanistan. In examining both the production and consumption contexts of local radio, it pinpoints areas of disjuncture that can and do lead to breakdowns in communications with the Afghan woman audience. Societal constructions of cultured tastes in the production room tend to obstruct female-friendly radio in favour of elite, male-oriented textual encodings. Consequently, women's radio transmissions are often at odds with the genre preferences and high levels of illiteracy of women in Afghanistan, failing to communicate with large segments of their intended audience. Radio producers face real and perceived penalties for disrupting cultural rules on what is and is not done on the air, thus the current system propagating ineffective women's radio is highly resistant to change”—(p. 2).
500			_aContents: Acknowledgements—Introduction—Chapter 1 : ideology, women and radio in Afghanistan—Chapter 2 : fieldwork choices and methods—Chapter 3 : Afghan women’s radio consumption—Chapter 4 : women and the culture of legitimized tastes—Chapter 5 : methodological postscript—Conclusion—Bibliography.
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650			_aMass media – Afghanistan.
650			_aPress – Afghanistan.
650			_aWomen's mass media – Afghanistan.
650			_aRadio broadcasting – Afghanistan.
650			_aMass media and education – Afghanistan.
650			_aPress – Afghanistan.
650			_aHumanitarian assistance – Afghanistan.
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