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Male dominated talk radio is central to the backlash against the feminist movement. The gains of women in the workplace threaten the traditional right wing. Limbaugh, Stern and their imitators fill the airwaves with their defence of male privilege. They yearn for the halcyon days of old where women were wombs and busy little bees in the kitchen. "Feminazis," as Limbaugh calls them, are messing up the natural order of things.
Susan Douglas, Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan, is one of America's foremost media critics. Her articles appear in The Progressive, Ms. and The Nation. She is the author of Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination.
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