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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (202 p.) : 30 b-w imagesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813592671
  • 9780813592718
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.45/617
LOC classification:
  • PN1992.8.C66 L465 2019eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 were often structured around non-nuclear families and the reorganization of housework. Drawing on Foucauldian and feminist theories, Leppert examines the nature of sitcoms such as Full House, Family Ties, Growing Pains, The Cosby Show, and Who's the Boss? against the backdrop of a time period generally remembered as socially conservative and obsessed with traditional family values.
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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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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 were often structured around non-nuclear families and the reorganization of housework. Drawing on Foucauldian and feminist theories, Leppert examines the nature of sitcoms such as Full House, Family Ties, Growing Pains, The Cosby Show, and Who's the Boss? against the backdrop of a time period generally remembered as socially conservative and obsessed with traditional family values.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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