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Ruspini, Elisabetta. Diversity In Family Life: Gender, Relationships And Social Change, Genna Duplisea
Ruspini, Elisabetta. Diversity In Family Life: Gender, Relationships And Social Change, Genna Duplisea
Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought
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Rewriting The How-To Of Parenting: What Is Really Modern About Abc’S Modern Family, Sylvia Henneberg
Rewriting The How-To Of Parenting: What Is Really Modern About Abc’S Modern Family, Sylvia Henneberg
Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought
Despite its unconventional family structures and playful gestures at redefining traditional gender scripts, ABC’s domestic comedy, Modern Family, perpetuates perceived notions of femininity and masculinity within the context of three families whose differences from the nuclear family are far from radical. Reassuring even its most conservative viewers on these counts, the show does, however, portray a potentially unsettling approach to parenting. The dynamics of parenting are unstable, bending gender rules and disregarding boundaries normally set by age, race, and social class. As normative notions of parenting are questioned and expanded, parenthood is no longer an immutable institution built on hard …