Research Catalog

Title

Gilmore girls and the politics of identity : essays on family and feminism in the television series / edited by Ritch Calvin.

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Calvin, Ritch, 1958-

Description

viii, 221 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This work examines the television series Gilmore Girls from a post-feminist perspective, evaluating how the show's main female characters and supporting cast fit into the classic portrayal of feminine identity on popular television. Essays examine the series from a number of perspectives, looking at its portrayal of traditional and non-traditional gender identities and familial relationships"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

Gilmore girls (Television program : 2000-2007)

Note

• "This work examines Gilmore Girls from a post-feminist perspective, evaluating how the show’s main female characters and supporting cast fit into the classic portrayal of feminine identity on popular television."--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : "where you lead" : Gilmore girls and the politics of identity / Ritch Calvin -- Welcome to Stars Hollow : Gilmore girls, Utopia, and the hyperreal / Erin K. Johns and Kristin L. Smith -- Rory Gilmore and faux feminism : an ivy league education and intellectual banter does not a feminist make / Molly McCaffrey -- Reinventing the bitch : the dynamicism of Paris Geller / Angela Ridinger-Dotterman -- Drats! foiled again : a contrast in definitions / Anne K. Burke Erickson -- Good girls, bad girls, and motorcycles : negotiating feminism / Alicia Skipper -- Got MILF? : losing Lorelai in season seven / Tiffany Aldrich Macbain and Mita Mahato -- Wheat balls, gravlax, pop tarts : mothering and power / Melanie Haupt -- Generation gap? : mothers, daughters and music / Faye Woods -- Like mother-daughter, like daughter-mother : constructs of motherhood in three generations / Stacia M. Fleegal -- Gender lies in Stars Hollow / Brenda Boyle and Olivia Combe -- Food fights : food and its consumption as a narrative device / Lindsay Coleman -- Still more Gilmore : how internet fan communities remediate Gilmore Girls/ Daniel Smith-Rowsey.

ISBN

9780786437276 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008012733

OCLC

• 188535827
• SCSB-11218147

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library