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

By:

Leppert, Alice [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813592718
0813592712

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: TV family values.DDC classification:

791.45/617

LOC classification:

PN1992.8.C66 L465 2019eb

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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.

Summary: 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 around non-nuclear families and the reorganization of housework. Drawing on Foucauldian and feminist theories, the author 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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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 around non-nuclear families and the reorganization of housework. Drawing on Foucauldian and feminist theories, the author 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