Television and Postfeminist Housekeeping: No Time for Mother by Elizabeth Nathanson

By Elizabeth Nathanson

In this ebook, Nathanson examines how modern American tv and linked electronic media depict women’s daily lives as homemakers, profession girls, and moms. Her concentrate on American pop culture from the Nineties during the current finds extremes: narratives approximately ladies who can't retain apartment and narratives approximately girls who only continue residence. Nathanson seems to be in particular on the factor of time during this context and argues that the media constructs panics approximately household time shortage whereas while delivering recommendations for these very panics. interpreting television courses akin to How fresh is your place, Up All Night, and Supernanny, she reveals that media’s portrayals of women’s time is essential to figuring out definitions of femininity, women’s hard work, and relaxation within the postfeminist context.

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