TV Family Values
Subtitle: Gender, Domestic Labor, and 1980s Sitcoms
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Mar 15, 2019
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780813592671
Description: 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 the 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?
Notes: Source title: TV Family Values: Gender, Domestic Labor, and 1980s Sitcoms