A New Book Is Out Featuring 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show'

[Brian Damage]

“Those Girls: Single Women in Sixties and Seventies Popular Culture,” Katherine J. Lehman

Television and movies have often struggled with how to portray single women, but perhaps never so much as during the 1960s and ’70s. Katherine J. Lehman, an assistant professor of communications, goes behind the scenes in Hollywood to show the conflicting forces at work in such shows as “That Girl,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Police Woman.” Lehman captures the conflict between wanting to portray a growing segment of society and capture that market, and to not stir up fears of society and the traditional family breaking down.

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