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Housework and Gender in American Television - Coming Clean (Hardcover)
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Housework and Gender in American Television - Coming Clean (Hardcover)
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Housework and Gender in American Television: Coming Clean examines
representations of housework and their relationships with gender in
sixty of the most popular television shows of the 1950s through the
1980s, searching for trends, similarities, inconsistencies, and
meaning. Much of the critical scholarship addressing mid-century
televised housework claims that domestic activities marginalize
female characters, removing them from scenes involving important
familial discussions and placing them in devalued positions. This
book challenges the notion that housework functions primarily as a
mechanism through which female characters are marginalized,
devalued, invisible, or passive, and instead proposes a different
reading of housework in television, one that brings to the fore the
loving, sacrificial, and active qualities so crucial and
foundational to housework activity in both representation and
reality. These qualities, in turn, attach a strength to female
characters, and male characters when applicable, that is often
ignored in standard feminist analyses of television. This study
reveals roughly twenty trends established in four decades of
televised housework, from the housewives of the fifties, to the
witches and genies of the sixties, to the elimination of male
domestic labor in the seventies, to the dominance of male
housekeepers in the eighties.
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