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Informationen zum Autor Heather Marcovitch is professor of English at Red Deer College, where she teaches courses in Victorian literature and critical theory. Nancy E. Batty is professor of English at Red Deer College, where she has taught American and international literature and science fiction for almost twenty years. Klappentext This book, edited by Heather Marcovitch and Nancy Batty, offers multiple perspectives on the representation of women and children in the popular AMC series, Mad Men. These essays explore the rich historical and social context portrayed in the series and connect the concerns and tumult of the sixties to the contemporary moment.This book, edited by Heather Marcovitch and Nancy Batty, offers multiple perspectives on the representation of women and children in the popular AMC series, Mad Men. These essays explore the rich historical and social context portrayed in the series and connect the concerns and tumult of the sixties to the contemporary moment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, Nancy Batty and Heather MarcovitchPart 1. Working GirlsChapter 1. Sex, Novels, and the Working Girl: Mad Men and Women's Bestsellers of the 1960s, Heather MarcovitchPart 2. What Do a Meaningless Secretary and a Humorless Bitch Have in Common?Everything. Or: Joan, Peggy, and the Convergence of Mad Men's Career Girls, Ann CiasulloChapter 3. Not a "Jackie," Not a "Marilyn": Mad Men and the Threat of Peggy Olson, Mary Ruth MarotteChapter 4. Joey, Joan, and the Gold-Plated Necklace, Hannah FarrellChapter 5. Mad Men? The Portrayal of Mad Women in the Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad WorldOf Mad Men's First Season, Joan CratePart 3. Utopian Visions and Social RealitiesChapter 6. Is This the Traditional American Family We've Been Hearing So Much About?:Marriage, Children, and Family Values in Mad Men, Julia C. Wilson and Joseph H. Lane, Jr.Chapter 7. The Good Place That Cannot Be: Visual Representations of Utopia on Mad Men, Jessica CampbellChapter 8. Carla: A Woman of Quiet Strength and Dignity, Elwood WatsonChapter 9. Beautiful Girls, Feminist Consciousness, and Civil Rights, Beth Mauldin and Patricia VenturaPart 4. Mad Men's Generations: Domesticity and the FamilyChapter 10. "It Was All a Fog": Motherhood and the Birth Experience in Mad Men, Katie ArosteguyChapter 11. Tearing Out the Kitchen, Angela Rasmussen and Andrea ReidChapter 12. Bishops, Knights, and Pawns: Mad Men and Narrative Strategy, Carol M. DoleChapter 13. Mad Men's Epoch-Eclipse: Marking Time with Sally Draper, Nancy Batty...
