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36 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
London Metropolitan University
C'EST BIEN UNE FEMME QUI PARLE :
DU PREJUGE A UANDROGYNIE. LAVOIX DANS LA SPHERE PUBLIQUE.
This chapter develops from the idea that the voice is a medium through which we perform gender. It charts changes to the public voice since the 1990s and asks whether the long prejudice against women's voices, and their resulting marginalisation in broadcasting, has been eroded, and whether, with the so-called feminisation of the male voice, the ideal public voice has become ungendered. It concludes that women still perform gender through their voices but that the gendered role of the voice for both men and women has become more complex, and the demands made of the public voice more contradictory.
This chapter develops from the idea that the voice is a medium through which we perform gender. It charts changes to the public voice since the 1990s and asks whether the long prejudice against women's voices, and their resulting marginalisation in broadcasting, has been eroded, and whether, with the so-called feminisation of the male voice, the ideal public voice has become ungendered. It concludes that women still perform gender through their voices but that the gendered role of the voice for both men and women has become more complex, and the demands made of the public voice more contradictory.
