1980s sitcoms
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challenging tradition
changing gender expectations
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family dynamics
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family sitcom
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Family Ties
family values
fatherhood in media
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flexibility in family roles
Full House
gender roles
Growing Pains
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Mr. Mom
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Reagan era
reorganization of housework
representation of women
sitcom
sitcom fathers
social conservatism
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television
television studies
The Cosby Show
traditional family
Traditions
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Who's the Boss?
Product details
- ISBN 9780813592671
- Weight: 3g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2019
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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During the 1980s, U.S. television experienced a reinvigoration of the family sitcom genre. In TV Family Values, Alice Leppert focuses on the impact the decade's television shows had on middle class family structure. These sitcoms sought to appeal to upwardly mobile "career women" and were often structured around non-nuclear families and the reorganization of housework. Drawing on Foucauldian and feminist theories, Leppert examines the nature of sitcoms such as Full House, Family Ties, Growing Pains, The Cosby Show, and Who's the Boss? against the backdrop of a time period generally remembered as socially conservative and obsessed with traditional family values.
ALICE LEPPERT is an assistant professor of media and communication studies at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.
