Housework and Gender in American Television

Informationen zum Autor By Kristi Rowan Humphreys Klappentext Housework and Gender in American Television: Coming Clean examines representations of housework and gender in sixty of the most popular television shows of the 1950s through the 1980s. This book challenges the notion that housework functions primarily as a mechanism through which female characters are marginalized, devalued, invisible, or passive, instead proposing a reading that brings to the fore the strength, often ignored in standard feminist analyses, that is inherent in the loving, sacrificial, and active qualities of housework. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Images Acknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Televised Housework in the 1950s Chapter Three: Televised Housework in the 1960s Chapter Four: Televised Housework in the 1970s Chapter Five: Televised Housework in the 1980s Chapter Six: Conclusions Bibliography

Auteur

Kristi Rowan Humphreys is lecturer at Baylor University

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Housework and Gender in American Television: Coming Clean examines representations of housework and gender in sixty of the most popular television shows of the 1950s through the 1980s. This book challenges the notion that housework functions primarily as a mechanism through which female characters are marginalized, devalued, invisible, or passive, instead proposing a reading that brings to the fore the strength, often ignored in standard feminist analyses, that is inherent in the loving, sacrificial, and active qualities of housework.

Contenu

List of Images Acknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Televised Housework in the 1950s Chapter Three: Televised Housework in the 1960s Chapter Four: Televised Housework in the 1970s Chapter Five: Televised Housework in the 1980s Chapter Six: Conclusions Bibliography