Research Catalog

Title

Reading Desperate housewives : beyond the white picket fence / edited by Janet McCabe & Kim Akass.

Publication

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York, NY : In the United States and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Akass, Kim.
• McCabe, Janet (Janet Elizabeth)

Description

xxii, 247 p.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Reading contemporary television

Uniform Title

Reading contemporary television.

Subject

• Desperate housewives (TV-serie)
• Desperate housewives (Television program)
• Televisieseries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 1845112202 (pbk.)
• 9781845112202 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2006285288

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library