Women Watching Television

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Summary

Women's inclinations to identify with television characters varies with their assessment of the realism of these characters and their social world.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Background	p. 13
Theoretical Framework: Issues of Class, Gender, and Mass Media Reception	p. 15
Work, Family, and Social Class in Television Images of Women: Prefeminism, Feminism, and Postfeminism on Prime-Time Television	p. 27
Women Interpreting Television	p. 51
Introduction Women's Experiences with Television: The Evolution of the Meaning of Television Through the Generations	p. 53
Middle-Class Women Discuss Television	p. 63
Working-Class Women Discuss Television	p. 97
Women Remembering Television: Pre- and Postfeminist Generations	p. 141
Conclusion: Television Reception as a Window on Culture	p. 171
Appendix: Methodology	p. 179
Notes Introduction	p. 195
Bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 233
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