{"product_id":"those-girls-single-women-in-sixties-and-seventies-popular-culture-hardcover","title":"Those Girls: Single Women in Sixties and Seventies Popular Culture - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatherine J. Lehman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong before Carrie Bradshaw in \u003ci\u003eSex and the City\u003c\/i\u003e, there was Mary Richards in \u003ci\u003eThe Mary Tyler Moore Show\u003c\/i\u003e. Every week, as Mary flung her beret into the air while the theme song proclaimed, \"You're gonna make it after all,\" it seemed that young, independent women like herself had finally arrived. But as Katherine Lehman reveals, the struggle to create accurate portrayals of successful single women for American TV and cinema during the 1960s and 1970s wasn't as simple as the toss of a hat. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThose Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to focus exclusively on struggles to define the \"single girl\" character in TV and film during a transformative period in American society. Lehman has scoured a wide range of source materials--unstudied film and television scripts, magazines, novels, and advertisements--to demonstrate how controversial female characters pitted fears of societal breakdown against the growing momentum of the women's rights movement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLehman's book focuses on the \"single girl\"--an unmarried career woman in her 20s or 30s--to show how this character type symbolized sweeping changes in women's roles. Analyzing films and programs against broader conceptions of women's sexual and social roles, she uncovers deep-seated fears in a nation accustomed to depictions of single women yearning for matrimony. Yet, as television began to reflect public acceptance of career women, series such as \u003ci\u003ePolice Woman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWonder Woman\u003c\/i\u003e proved that heroines could wield both strength and femininity--while movies like \u003ci\u003eLooking for Mr. Goodbar\u003c\/i\u003e cautioned viewers against carrying new-found freedom too far. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLehman takes us behind the scenes in Hollywood to show us the production decisions and censorship negotiations that shaped these characters before they even made it to the screen. She includes often-overlooked sources such as the TV series \u003ci\u003eGet Christie Love\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEbony\u003c\/i\u003e magazine to give us a richer understanding of how women of color negotiated urban singles life. And she reveals how trailblazing characters continue to influence portrayals of single women in shows like \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis entertaining and insightful study examines familiar characters caught between the competing fears and aspirations of a society rethinking its understanding of social and sexual mores. \u003ci\u003eThose Girls\u003c\/i\u003e reassesses feminine genres that are often marginalized in media scholarship and contributes to a greater valuation of the unmarried, independent woman in America.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 27, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42702080999520,"sku":"9780700618088","price":71.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/those-girls-single-women-in-sixties-and-seventies-popular-culture-hardcover","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}