Published February 22, 2009
Vol. 39, No. 2: Summer 1998

Articles

AmsJ Editors
1-3
Front Matter
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AmsJ Editors
4,197
Notes on Contributors
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David M. Katzman
5-12
Introduction
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Judy Kutulas
13-32
"Do I look Like a Chick?": Men, Women, and Babies on Sitcom Maternity Stories
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Jude Davies, Carol R. Smith
33-63
Race, Gender, and the American Mother: Political Speech and the Maternity Episodes of I Love Lucy and Murphy Brown
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Danae Clark
65-86
Mediadoption--Children, Commodification, and the Spectacle of Disruption
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The Personal is Professional on TV

Charlie Bertsch, Gillian Epstein, Annalee Newitz, Jillian Sandell
87-92
Introduction
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Annalee Newitz
93-105
ER, Professionals, and the Work-Family Disaster
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Charlie Bertsch
107-127
"The Personal is Paranormal": Professional Labor on The X-Files
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Gillian Epstein
129-139
Crafting the Politics of "Special Space": 90210's Scripting of Media Enjoyment in te Private Sphere
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Jillian Sandell
141-155
I'll Be There For You: Friends and the Fantasy of Alternative Families
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Shantanu DuttaAhmed
157-171
Heartbreak Hotel: MTV's The Real World, III, and The Narratives of Containment
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Kristine M. McCusker
173-195
"Dear Radio Friend": Listener Mail and the National Barn Dance, 1931-1941
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