Women on the Move: Representation and Gender Change in the Sitcom
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This thesis examines the situation comedy and its relationship to gender and social change through the shifting portrayals of women in woman-driven sitcoms. I explore this genre category within three subgenres that have been shaped by changes in women's lives: the domestic or family-centered sitcom, the workplace comedy, and the "friendship" (or "gang") comedy. This thesis traces in broadest strokes the progress of (mostly white, mostly middle-class) women in American society and cultural imagination from the postwar period onward, as these sitcom women migrate from the private sphere into the public.
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Date
April 15, 2016
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116 pages
Language
eng
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electronic
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In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted
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