The letters’ dovecote. The Elena Francis’ women radio show in the Sixties and Seventies

Abstract

In the sixties and seventies, Elena Francis’s Office for Women was a very successful radio listening and participation space. The consideration of these radiological offices as emotional refuges and the analysis of the letters that the listeners sent to them suppose the possibility of knowing the life of these ordinary women, whose suffering sentimentality is indicative of the contradiction between the model of women that is publicized, in the counselor’s speech, made of prescriptions, and the perception of their lives that women had and that they expressed in their letters.