TV Family Values : : Gender, Domestic Labor, and 1980s Sitcoms /

TV Family Values : : Gender, Domestic Labor, and 1980s Sitcoms / / Alice Leppert.

During the 1980s, U.S. television experienced a reinvigoration of the family sitcom genre. In TV Family Values, Alice Leppert 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2019
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Leppert, Alice,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (202 p.) :; 30 b-w images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 Childcare 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
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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