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791.4572 D468R227
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- (Checked in: Mar 23 2013 )
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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index.
Contents:
- Introduction : airing the dirty laundry / Janet McCabe and Kim Akass
- Pt. 1. Culture
- 1. 'W' stands for women, or is it wisteria? : watching Desperate Housewives with Bush 43 / David Lavery
- 2. Still desperate : popular television and the female Zeitgeist / Rosalind Coward
- 3. Having it all : Desperate Housewives' flimsy feminism / Ashley Sayeau
- 4. Still desperate after all these years : the post-feminist mystique and maternal dilemmas / Kim Akass
- Pt. 2. Sexual politics
- 5. Desperately straight : the subversive sexual politics of Desperate Housewives / Samuel A. Chambers
- 6. What is it with that hair? : Bree Van de Kamp and policing contemporary femininity / Janet McCabe
- 7. As Kamp as Bree : post-feminist camp in Desperate Housewives / Niall Richardson
- 8. Queer dilemmas : the 'right' ideology and homosexual representation in Desperate Housewives / Kristian T. Kahn
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- 9. Hunters, heroes and the hegemonically masculine fantasies of Desperate Housewives / Brian Singleton
- Pt. 3. Genre, gender and cultural myths
- 10. Disciplining the housewife in Desperate Housewives and domestic reality television / Sharon Sharp
- 11. Murder and mayhem on Wisteria Lane : a study of genre and cultural context in Desperate Housewives / Judith Lancioni
- 12. White picket fences, domestic containment and female subjectivity : the quest for romantic love / Sherryl Wilson
- 13. Desperation and domesticity : reconfiguring the 'happy housewife' in Desperate Housewives / Anna Marie Bautista
- Pt. 4. Narrative, confession and intimacy
- 14. Dying to tell you something : posthumous narration and female omniscience in Desperate Housewives / Deborah Jermyn
- 15. Desperation loves company : female friendship and the facade of female intimacy in Desperate Housewives / Sherianne Shuler, M. Chad McBride and Erika L. Kirby
- 16. 'Mother, home and heaven' : nostalgia, confession and motherhood in Desperate Housewives / Stacy Gillis and Melanie Waters
- 17. Desperately debating housewives / Jennifer L. Pozner and Jessica Seigel.
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