Women’s presence behind the scenes of the U.S. television industry in the 1970s fundamentally changed the way the medium worked, pushing it toward a more feminist agenda. This is what Jennifer S. Clark argues effectively in Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation. Clark takes readers beyond the glitz of Hollywood and into the labor ranks, but her case studies are often as heroic and dramatic as anything seen on screen, from the female executive who helped women’s sports break through to the mainstream, to fascinating, if ultimately unsuccessful, attempts to bring “serious” women’s programming to public Read more