Feminist Television Criticism
Subtitle: A Reader (Oxford Television Studies)
Contributors: Charlotte Brunsdon (Editor); Julie D'Acci (Editor); Lynn Spigel (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: July 17, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780198711520
Subjects: Feminism; Media Studies; Television; United States; Social Science; Women In Broadcasting; Television Broadcasting; Sociology; Television - History & Criticism; Social aspects; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Performing Arts / Television / History & Criticism; Feminist television criticism; Great Britain
First sentence: AS A MEDIUM THAT OFFERS the fantasy of seeing the outside world while sitting in the interior space of the family home, television has largely reproduced the ideology of separate spheres which sees the home as a space of femininity and leisure and the public world as a place of masculinity and work.