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Description
vii, 179 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. In TV Family Values, Alice Leppert focuses on the impact the decade's television shows had on the 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?
