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Compromising Positions

Gender by design on Merge and Mix It Up
Article by Kathleen Collins, published in 2003; filed under Broadcast; tagged battle of the sexes, design, gendered space, home decorating, tv.

Mass media, particularly so-called family television, from Bewitched to Everybody Loves Raymond, has long portrayed the home as women’s domain, an ultra-feminized realm in which housewives bustle and cluck while their hapless husbands do little more than hand out spending money and retreat to the most masculine part of the house: the study, or their favorite chair. There’s no denying the cult of the man’s chair in TV history: Those who knew Archie Bunker knew never to sit in his chair.

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