Of Peerenting, Trophy Wives, and Effeminate Men: Modern Family's Surprisingly Conservative Remediation of the Family Sitcom Genre

Authors

Christina M. LaVecchia, University of CincinnatiFollow

Abstract

Just because the family is modern doesn't mean the family is new.

About the Author(s)

Christina M. LaVecchia is a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, where the pigs fly, the chili is served on top of spaghetti, and the inclines are steep. After finishing her master's in English literature this spring, Christina will stay in Cincinnati to begin her PhD in Rhetoric and Composition in the fall of 2011.

DOI

10.15760/harlot.2011.6.6

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/39418

Creative Commons License

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Recommended Citation

LaVecchia, Christina M. (2011) "Of Peerenting, Trophy Wives, and Effeminate Men: Modern Family's Surprisingly Conservative Remediation of the Family Sitcom Genre," Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion: No. 6, 6.
https://doi.org/10.15760/harlot.2011.6.6