Crossposting

I have created a secondary page, Married on Television, as a resting place for my undergrad thesis project. It was pretty long and benefitted by being split up a bit, so having its own page makes sense.

Here’s an excerpt from the intro that explains it most succinctly.

Through the use of clips from I Love Lucy (1951-1957), Bewitched (1964-1972), All in the Family (1971-1979), Married With Children (1987-1997), Roseanne (1988-1997) and Desperate Housewives (2004-2007) this project aims to deconstruct the media’s construction of gender roles in marriage in pre-feminist and ‘post’-feminist contexts. My hope is to simultaneously document the gradual shift of socially acceptable roles for women from housewives and mothers into the workforce and the static portrayals of men as breadwinners and familial protectors. My intention is to demonstrate that feminism’s failure to deconstruct masculinity and femininity has resulted in a failure to achieve equality to the detriment of both men and women.

thanks for checking it out!