Search Terms:
1.
“Desperate
housewives” and gender
2.
“Desperate
housewives” and feminism
3.
“Desperate
housewives” and wives
4.
“Desperate
housewives” and women
5.
television
and women
6.
television
and housewives
7.
television
and wives
8.
gender
and work
9.
gender
and family
10. woman and work
11. woman and family and US
Research Plan
The
purpose of this literary study will be to explore how Lynette in Desperate
Housewives perceives women’s role in family and work and how does that
contribute to a better understanding of this television show and the social
changes in women’s role. In the paper, I will analyze Lynette’s role in family
and work and its relationship with the actual social perceptions and changes of
female roles in both family and workplace.
The contextual information I need is about how
women’s role in family and work changed in the United States within the recent
decades, what are other television programs that mentioned female role and how
did they perceive, and how other academic articles say about my research topic.
There are abundant literatures that have been written about the gender issues
in the Desperate Housewives. In one of the articles, the author thinks that
this television show is closely related to contemporary social conventions
about female roles (Hill). In the main part of the paper, I will mainly focus
on Lynette and analyze this role using the first four seasons, and I will
answer the question that how the role of Lynette represents the whole TV
program and how is this role similar and different from the mainstream opinions
in this field. Then, I will support my arguments by examples from other
scholarly articles and original episodes from the Desperate Housewives.
The methods I acquire to write this research paper are
qualitative methods including referring to other scholarly sources and textual
analysis of The Desperate Housewives. The databases I would like to use to collect
information are MLA International
Bibliography, Academic Search Premier in EBSCO, JSTOR and ProQuest: Literature
and Language.
Why Lynett'es point of view?
回复删除I would suggest focus on Lynette's role, using your own POV as a researcher. How does Lynette challenge/reinforce traditional gender roles? And how does this effect her friendships with other women? Which relationships are strengthened? Which ones are weakened?
Looks like there is not a lot of incorporation of "Sex and the City" here. Which is fine. I think it is a good choice to remove foci that are distracting or not useful. A good choice.