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.

    Item Description
    Name(s)
    Thesis advisor: Clawson, Mary Ann
    Thesis advisor: Traube, Elizabeth G.
    Date
    April 15, 2016
    Extent
    116 pages
    Language
    eng
    Genre
    Physical Form
    electronic
    Discipline
    Rights and Use
    In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted
    Digital Collection
    PID
    ir:174