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Truth be told, neither Billy Clyde nor Merriwell for that matter would really be all that comfortable with the way Friday Night Lights employed a football-centric narrative to have female characters participate in a dismantling and reconstructing of those archetypal models that is often jarring. It was a process that changed life on the show for the men accustomed to those roles as well as for the women in their lives who once dutifully conformed to corollary supporting roles. Thus, the show’s commitment to “explore not only high school culture and sports culture but American culture in general” included a determined but fluid exploration of a multiplicity of gender narratives.
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Kerr, R.L. (2015). Two-Tiered Gender System Encounters Emotion Work. In: How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137534071_9
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