Television celebrity Roseanne's foregrounding of working-class feminism has frequently affronted middle-class notions of propriety. following Kathleen Rowe, I use "Roseanne" in this discussion to signify Roseanne "as a sign created by her various public roles, performances, and interviews [as, for instance, comedian Roseanne Barr, television sitcom character Roseanne Conner, high profile Roseanne Arnold] and by commentaries about them".