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The Evil Twins of American Television - Feminist Alter Egos since 1960 (Hardcover)
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The Evil Twins of American Television - Feminist Alter Egos since 1960 (Hardcover)
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The Evil Twins of American Television examines evil-twin depictions
in over fifty years of television, comparing male twins to female
twins and male-writer depictions to female-writer depictions.
Kristi Rowan Humphreys studies shows such as The Patty Duke Show,
Bewitched, Gilligan’s Island, I Dream of Jeannie, and The Brady
Bunch, which use the twinning trope to explore themes like feminism
and identity. Employing traits identified by Betty Friedan in The
Feminine Mystique as belonging to the “evil” side of her
“schizophrenic split” theory, Humphreys analyzes the ways in
which these alter ego characters embody the desire for a separate
self and independence through loose inhibitions, career interests,
political interests, intellectual prowess, and assertiveness. The
book then compares female-written twin episodes to male-written
twin episodes, finding that when “evil twin” episodes are
written or co-written by female writers, the twins are presented
less as oppositional binaries and more as compatible, often
symbiotic binaries, where they are still depicted as opposites, but
opposites who work together and, in some cases, need each other.
Thus, the female writers of these shows offer a compelling response
to Friedan’s text, one that acknowledges and underscores the many
complexities of women—the image of which cannot in reality be so
easily split into two oppositional binaries.
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