Alice Leppert

TV Family Values

Gender, Domestic Labor, and 1980s Sitcoms

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Produktbeschreibung

During the 1980s, US 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780813592671
• ISBN-10: 0813592674
• Artikelnr.: 54917830

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