Alice Leppert

TV Family Values

Gender, Domestic Labor, and 1980s Sitcoms

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Produktbeschreibung

During the 1980s, U.S. television experienced a reinvigoration of the family sitcom genre. Drawing on Foucauldian and feminist theories, Alice Leppert examines the nature of sitcoms against the backdrop of a time period generally remembered as socially conservative and obsessed with traditional family values.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780813592688
• ISBN-10: 0813592682
• Artikelnr.: 54921796

Autorenporträt

ALICE LEPPERT is an assistant professor of media and communication studies at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
1          Selling Ms. Consumer                        
2          "I Can't Help Feeling Maternal-I'm a Father!": Domesticated Dads
and Career Women
3          Solving the Day-Care Crisis, One Episode at a Time: Family
Sitcoms and Privatized Child Care in the 1980s                       
4          "You Could Call Me the Maid-But I Wouldn't": Lessons in
Masculine Domestic Labor
5          Disrupting the Fantasy: Reagan Era Realities and Feminist
Pedagogies
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index