Mad men, women, and children : essays on gender and generation / edited by Heather Marcovitch and Nancy Batty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Batty, Nancy Ellen.

Marcovitch, Heather, 1969-

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mad men (Television program).

Children on television.

Women on television.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2012.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Mad Men, Women, and Children: Essays on Gender and Generation, edited by Heather Marcovitch and Nancy Batty, offers multiple perspectives on the representation of women and children in the popular AMC series, Mad Men. These essays explore the rich historical and social context portrayed in the series and connect the concerns and tumult of the sixties to the contemporary moment.

Contents:

Introduction / Nancy Batty and Heather Marcovitch

Working Girls. Sex, Novels, and the Working Girl: Mad Men and Women's Bestsellers of the 1960s / Heather Marcovitch

What Do a Meaningless Secretary and a Humorless Bitch Have in Common? Everything, or, Joan, Peggy, and the Convergence of Mad Men's Career Girls / Ann Ciasullo

Not a "Jackie", not a "Marilyn": Mad Men and the Threat of Peggy Olson / Mary Ruth Marotte

Joey, Joan, and the Gold-Plated Necklace / Hannah Farrell

Mad Men? The Portrayal of Mad Women in the Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Of Mad Men's First Season / Joan Crate

Utopian Visions and Social Realities. Is this the Traditional American Family We've Been Hearing So Much About?: Marriage, Children, and Family Values in Mad Men / Julia C. Wilson and Joseph H. Lane, Jr.

The Good Place That Cannot Be: Visual Representations of Utopia on Mad Men / Jessica Campbell

Carla: A Woman of Quiet Strength and Dignity / Elwood Watson

Beautiful Girls, Feminist Consciousness, and Civil Rights / Beth Mauldin and Patricia Ventura

Mad Men's Generations: Domesticity and the Family

"It Was All a Fog": Motherhood and the Birth Experience in Mad Men / Katie Arosteguy

Tearing Out the Kitchen / Angela Rasmussen and Andrea Reid

Bishops, Knights, and Pawns: Mad Men and Narrative Strategy / Carol M. Dole

Mad Men's Epoch-Eclipse: Marking Time with Sally Draper / Nancy Batty.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

1-9787-4632-6

1-282-13439-6

9786613806970

0-7391-7379-0

OCLC:

806039176