TV family values : gender, domestic labor, and 1980s sitcoms

TV family values : gender, domestic labor, and 1980s sitcoms /

During the 1980s, U.S. television experienced a reinvigoration of the family sitcom genre. This book focuses on the impact the decade's television shows had on middle class family structure. These sitcoms sought to appeal to upwardly mobile "career women" and were often structured aro...

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Main Author: Leppert, Alice (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2019
Subjects:
Situation comedies (Television programs) > United States.
Television broadcasting > Social aspects > United States.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Selling Ms. Consumer
  • "I can't help feeling maternal
  • I'm a father!" : Domesticated dads and career women
  • Solving the day-care crisis, one episode at a time : family sitcoms and privatized childcare in the 1980s
  • "You could call me the maid
  • but I wouldn't" : lessons in masculine domestic labor
  • Disrupting the fantasy : Reagan era realities and feminist pedagogies.

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