Housework and Gender in American Television - Coming Clean

This book examines representations of housework and gender in popular television shows of the 1950s through the 1980s. It challenges the notion that housework is a mechanism through which female characters are marginalized, instead arguing that it highlights strength that is inherent in the loving, sacrificial, and active qualities of housework.

List of contents

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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

About the author

By Kristi Rowan Humphreys

Summary

This book examines representations of housework and gender in popular television shows of the 1950s through the 1980s. It challenges the notion that housework is a mechanism through which female characters are marginalized, instead arguing that it highlights strength that is inherent in the loving, sacrificial, and active qualities of housework.

Product details

• Authors: Kristi Rowan Humphreys, Humphreys Kristi Rowan
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781498529884
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-2988-4
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)