Closures: Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom

<strong>Isabel Bartholomew is a PhD student in English and gender and sexuality studies at the University of California, Irvine. She studies reproductive labor, the politics of the family, and American popular culture since the late 19th century. </strong>

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What Was the Sitcom? On Grace Lavery’s “Closures”

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Isabel Bartholomew is a PhD student in English and gender and sexuality studies at the University of California, Irvine. She studies reproductive labor, the politics of the family, and American popular culture since the late 19th century. 

Isabel Bartholomew

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What Was the Sitcom? On Grace Lavery’s “Closures”