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The New Adventures of Old Christine

Julia Louis-DreyfusSitcom
  • Season 5, Episode 18 “Revenge Makeover” [April 14, 2010]

Another sitcom reference and an old, old trope on how feminists (here telegraphed by being a women’s studies “doctoral student” at Vassar) are unattractive.

Thanks to Rebecca Tuite, whose book, Vassar Style: Fashion, Feminism and 1950s American Media, looks in depth at some of the same ideas as this site.