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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leppert, Alice (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2019
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Television broadcasting > Social aspects.
Social conditions.
Situation comedies (Television programs)
PERFORMING ARTS > General.
Television > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Comedies de situation > États-Unis.
Television broadcasting > Social aspects > United States.
Situation comedies (Television programs) > United States.
United States.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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