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Women Watching Television: Gender, Class, and Generation in the American Television Experience » Read Now
by Andrea L. Press. 246 pgs.

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...Women Watching Television WOMEN WATCHING TELEVISION Gender...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Press, Andrea Lee. Women watching television : gender, class, and...
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Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays » Read Now
by Mary Beth Haralovich, Lauren Rabinovitz. 226 pgs.

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In less than a century, the flickering blue-grey light of the television screen has become a cultural icon. What do the images transmitted by that screen tell us about power, authority, gender stereotypes, and ideology in the United States? Television, History, and American Culture addresses this...
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In less than a century, the flickering blue-grey light of the television screen has become a cultural icon. What do the images transmitted by that screen tell us about power, authority, gender stereotypes, and ideology in the United States? Television, History, and American Culture addresses this question by illuminating how television both reflects and influences American culture and identity.The essays collected here focus on women in front of, behind, and on the TV screen, as producers, viewers, and characters. Using feminist and historical criticism, the contributors investigate how television has shaped our understanding of gender, power, race, ethnicity, and sexuality from the 1950s to the present. The topics range from the role that women broadcasters played in radio and early television to the attempts of Desilu Productions to present acceptable images of Hispanic identity, from the impact of TV talk shows on public discourse and the politics of offering viewers positive images of fat women to the negotiation of civil rights, feminism, and abortion rights on news programs and shows such as I Spy and Peyton Place.Innovative and accessible, this book will appeal to those interested in women's studies, American studies, and popular culture and the critical study of television.Contributors. Julie D'Acci, Mary Desjardins, Jane Feuer, Mary Beth Haralovich, Michele Hilmes, Moya Luckett, Lauren Rabinovitz, Jane M. Shattuc, Mark Williams
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Television Culture and Women's Lives: Thirtysomething and the Contradictions of Gender » Read Now
by Margaret J. Heide. 174 pgs.

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...Thirtysomething Television program 2. Women in television- United States. 3. Television and women--United States. I. Title. II. Series...accomplish chores around the house...
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Defining Women: Television and the Case of Cagney & Lacey » Read Now
by Julie D'Acci. 346 pgs.

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This book deals with the cultural constructions of gender, the many troubles that underlie them, and U.S. television's place in the overall process. It investigates the 'struggle over meanings'--specifically the meanings of woman, women, and femininity; the role of television networks, production...
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This book deals with the cultural constructions of gender, the many troubles that underlie them, and U.S. television's place in the overall process. It investigates the 'struggle over meanings'--specifically the meanings of woman, women, and femininity; the role of television networks, production companies, production teams, and publicity firms in generating and circulating these meanings; the ways in which TV viewers, the press, and numerous interest groups produce meanings and countermeanings of their own; and how all of these meanings clash and compete for social and semiotic space and power.
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Women and Mass Communications in the 1990's: An International, Annotated Bibliography » Read Now
by John A. Lent. 510 pgs.

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This international survey of literature on women and mass communications focuses on the 1990s and continues where the first volume, Women and Mass Communications: An International Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 1991), left off. Some pre-1990 works that were omitted in the first volume are...
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This international survey of literature on women and mass communications focuses on the 1990s and continues where the first volume, Women and Mass Communications: An International Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 1991), left off. Some pre-1990 works that were omitted in the first volume are included here as well. The work is organized by continents and regions and includes the Middle East; Asia, Australia and Oceania; Europe; Latin America and the Caribbean; and North America. The first chapter provides a global perspective, and the following chapters are divided topically. All genres of publications, such as books, periodicals, dissertations, and conference papers, are examined.
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Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader » Read Now
by Charlotte Brunsdon, Julie P. D'Acci, Lynn P. Spigel. 388 pgs.

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PART I: Housewives, Heroines, Feminists 1. Everyday Life, Michelle Mattelart 2. The Search for Tomorrow in Today's Soap Operas, Tania Modleski 3. Affirmation and Denial: Construction of Feminity on Indian Television (excerpts), Prabha Krishnan and Anita Digh 4. Roseanne: Unruly Woman as...
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PART I: Housewives, Heroines, Feminists 1. Everyday Life, Michelle Mattelart 2. The Search for Tomorrow in Today's Soap Operas, Tania Modleski 3. Affirmation and Denial: Construction of Feminity on Indian Television (excerpts), Prabha Krishnan and Anita Digh 4. Roseanne: Unruly Woman as Domestic Goddess, Kathleen Rowe 5. L.A. Law and Prime-Time Feminism, Judith Mayne 6. Empowering Women? The Oprah Winfrey Show, Corrine Squire 7. Identity in Feminist Television Criticism, Charlotte Brunsdon 8. New Traditionalism and Post-Feminism: TV Does the Home, Elspeth Probyn PART TWO: Audiences and Reception Contexts 9. Women's Genres, Annette Kuhn 10. Melodramatic Identifications: Television Fiction and Women's Fantasy, Ien Ang 11. Black Feminism and Media Criticism: The Women of Brewster Place, Jacqeline Bobo and Ellen Seiter 12. In Love with Inspecter Morse, Lyn Thomas 13. Fruitful Investigations: The Case of the Successful Lesbian Text, Hilary Hinds 14. the Suburban Home Companion: Television and the Neighborhood Ideal in Postwar America, Lynn Spigel 15. Behind Closed Doors: Video Recorders in the Home, Ann Gray PART THREE: Private Bodies, Public Figures 16. Television Tales and a Woman's Rage: A Nationalist Recasting of Draupidi's Disrobing, Purnima Mankekar 17. Abortion Discourse and 1970s Television Documentary, Julie D'Acci 18. The Ideology of Freshness in Feminine Hygiene Commericials, Kate Kane 19. Never Trust a Big Butt and a Smile, Tricia Rose 20. The Gorgeous Lesbian in L.A. Law: The Present Absence?, Rosanne Kennedy 21. Reproducing Reality: Murphy Brown and Illegitimate Politics, Rebecca Walkowitz 22. Representation Wars: Malaysia, Embassy, and Australia's Corps Diplomatique, Suvendrini Perera
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Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement Since 1970 » Read Now
by Bonnie J. Dow. 240 pgs.

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...0-8122-1554-0 pbk.: alk. paper 1. Women in television-- United States. 2. Women and television-- United States. 3. Feminism--United...products. This means, for example...
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The Elastic Body Image: The Effect of Television Advertising and Programming on Body Image Distortions in Young Women, in Journal of Communication » Read Now
by Philip N. Myers Jr., Frank A. Biocca. 26 pgs.

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...The Effect of Television Advertising and...Distortions in Young Women by Philip N...photographs of women in two womens magazines...stars. In the 33 television shows...
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Sob Stories, Merriment, and Surprises: The 1950s Audience Participation Show on Network Television and Women's Daytime Reception, in Velvet Light Trap » Read Now
by Marsha F. Cassidy. 14 pgs.

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...homemaking ideals that forbade women from watching television during the day except...of programs both invited women to enter televisions performance space and pictured...A...
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Women's Studies on Television? It's Time for Distance Learning, in NWSA Journal » Read Now
by Annis H. Hopkins. 16 pgs.

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...via live cable television still need to be...that excluded both women and information...new material on women." One mark of this...course via cable television, I struggled...
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Women and Soap Opera: A Cultural Feminist Perspective » Read Now
by Dannielle Blumenthal. 144 pgs.

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Women's soap opera viewing has long been thought of by feminists and nonfeminists as an unproductive waste of time. Blumenthal takes the opposing view, arguing that women's "indulgence" in these programs is actually liberating. In overcoming the social opposition to the stigma attached to the...
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Women's soap opera viewing has long been thought of by feminists and nonfeminists as an unproductive waste of time. Blumenthal takes the opposing view, arguing that women's "indulgence" in these programs is actually liberating. In overcoming the social opposition to the stigma attached to the feminine content and style, and engaging in soap opera viewing, women celebrate their femininity, particularly their gendered identification with romance, relationality, intuitiveness, talkativeness, and other aspects of emotionality. This book will be of interest to academics in the areas of sociology, women's studies, and media studies.
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Not a Laughing Matter: Sexual Harassment as "Material" on Workplace-Based Situation Comedies, in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research » Read Now
by Beth Montemurro. 13 pgs.

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...appropriate in todays society. Women on Television There is considerable research...2000) also examined images of women on television. They analyzed...
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The Portrayal of Women in U.S. Prime Time Television, in Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media » Read Now
by Michael Elasmar, Kazumi Hasegawa, Mary Brain. 14 pgs.

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...attention has been focused on how television portrays women. Portrayals of women included...the hiring and depiction of women on television...J. F. (1975). Imagery of...
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Making a Difference in Prime Time: Women on Screen and Behind the Scenes in the 1995-96 Television Season, in Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media » Read Now
by Martha M. Lauzen, David M. Dozier. 19 pgs.

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...developing power and influence of women in television and film. New York: Henry Holt and...Content analysis of the image of women on television. In C. M. Lont (Ed.), Women...
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Work, Family, and Social Class in Television Images of Women: Prime-Time Television and the Construction of Postfeminism, in Women and Language » Read Now
by Andrea Press, Terry Strathman. 9 pgs.

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...particularly in the relationship of television women to family and work. The shape...Rarely (if ever) were early television women shown to be mature, independent...the men...