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primetime comedy  

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  • Television emerged as a popular and increasingly accessible form of entertainment at a time when women's roles in society were increasingly being contested. Since the beginning of television, the representations, or lack thereof, of women on television have been at the center of debate. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender and Society; Primetime Comedy]

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