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Author Dow, Bonnie J.

Title Prime-time feminism : television, media culture, and the women's movement since 1970 / Bonnie J. Dow
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1996]
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996
©1996
©1996

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Description xxvi, 240 pages ; 24 cm
regular print
Series Feminist cultural studies, the media, and political culture
Feminist cultural studies, the media, and political culture.
Contents Introduction: The Rhetoric of Television, Criticism, and Theory -- 1. 1970s Lifestyle Feminism, the Single Woman, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show -- 2. Prime-Time Divorce: The "Emerging Woman" of One Day at a Time -- 3. "After the Revolution": 1980s Television, Postfeminism, and Designing Women -- 4. Murphy Brown: Postfeminism Personified -- 5. The Other Side of Postfeminism: Maternal Feminism in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman -- Afterword: Feminist Images, Feminist Politics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-234) and index
Subject Feminism -- United States.
Television and women -- United States.
Women on television -- United States.
Women on television.
LC no. 96005604
ISBN 0812215540 (paperback: alk. paper)
0812233158 (hardcover : alk. paper)