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Reading Desperate housewives: beyond the white picket fence

By Akass , Kim;McCabe , Janet Elizabeth

Book information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd
Year
2019
ISBN
9781845112, 9780755695782, 075569578X, 9781429454117, 1429454113
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
58 MB (61246276 bytes)
Series
Reading contemporary television
Edition
First edition
Pages
xxii, 247 pages\240
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Conference publication;Electronic books;Desperate

Description

Introduction: airing the dirty laundry / Janet McCabe and Kim Akass -- Part 1: CULTURE -- 'W' stands for women, or is it Wisteria?: watching Desperate Housewives with Bush 43 / David Lavery -- Still desperate: popular television and the female Zeitgeist / Rosalind Coward -- Having it all: Desperate Housewives' flimsy feminism / Ashley Sayeau -- Still desperate after all these years: the post-feminist mystique and maternal dilemmas / Kim Akass -- Part 2: SEXUAL POLITICS -- Desperately straight: the subversive sexual politics of Desperate Housewives / Samuel A. Chambers -- What is it with that hair? Bree Van de Kamp and policing contemporary femininity / Janet McCabe -- As Kamp as Bree: post-feminist camp in Desperate Housewives / Niall Richardson -- Queer dilemmas: the 'right' ideology and homosexual representation in Desperate Housewives / Kristian T. Kahn -- Hunters, heroes and the hegemonically masculine fantasies of Desperate Housewives / Brian Singleton -- Part 3: GENRE, GENDER AND CULTURAL MYTHS -- Disciplining the housewife in Desperate Housewives and domestic reality television / Sharon Sharp -- Murder and mayhem on Wisteria Lane: a study of genre and cultural context in Desperate Housewives / Judith Lancioni -- White picket fences, domestic containment and female subjectivity: the quest for romantic love / Sherryl Wilson -- Desperation and domesticity: reconfiguring the 'happy housewife' in Desperate Housewives / Anna Marie Bautista -- Part 4: NARRATIVE, CONFESSION AND INTIMACY -- Dying to tell you something: posthumous narration and female omniscience in Desperate Housewives / Deborah Jermyn -- Desperation loves company: female friendship and the façade of female intimacy in Desperate Housewives / Sherianne Shuler, M. Chad McBride and Erika L. Kirby -- 'Mother, home and heaven': nostalgia confession and motherhood in Desperate Housewives / Stacy Gillis and Melanie Waters -- Desperately debating housewives / Jennifer L. Pozner and Jessica Seigel. Introduction: airing the dirty laundry / Janet McCabe and Kim Akass -- Part 1: CULTURE -- 'W' stands for women, or is it Wisteria?: watching Desperate Housewives with Bush 43 / David Lavery -- Still desperate: popular television and the female Zeitgeist / Rosalind Coward -- Having it all: Desperate Housewives' flimsy feminism / Ashley Sayeau -- Still desperate after all these years: the post-feminist mystique and maternal dilemmas / Kim Akass -- Part 2: SEXUAL POLITICS -- Desperately straight: the subversive sexual politics of Desperate Housewives / Samuel A. Chambers -- What is it with that hair? Bree Van de Kamp and policing contemporary femininity / Janet McCabe -- As Kamp as Bree: post-feminist camp in Desperate Housewives / Niall Richardson -- Queer dilemmas: the 'right' ideology and homosexual representation in Desperate Housewives / Kristian T. Kahn -- Hunters, heroes and the hegemonically masculine fantasies of Desperate Housewives / Brian Singleton -- Part 3: GENRE, GENDER AND CULTURAL MYTHS -- Disciplining the housewife in Desperate Housewives and domestic reality television / Sharon Sharp -- Murder and mayhem on Wisteria Lane: a study of genre and cultural context in Desperate Housewives / Judith Lancioni -- White picket fences, domestic containment and female subjectivity: the quest for romantic love / Sherryl Wilson -- Desperation and domesticity: reconfiguring the 'happy housewife' in Desperate Housewives / Anna Marie Bautista -- Part 4: NARRATIVE, CONFESSION AND INTIMACY -- Dying to tell you something: posthumous narration and female omniscience in Desperate Housewives / Deborah Jermyn -- Desperation loves company: female friendship and the façade of female intimacy in Desperate Housewives / Sherianne Shuler, M. Chad McBride and Erika L. Kirby -- 'Mother, home and heaven': nostalgia confession and motherhood in Desperate Housewives / Stacy Gillis and Melanie Waters -- Desperately debating housewives / Jennifer L. Pozner and Jessica Seigel.

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