Third wave feminism and television : Jane puts it in a box
London ; New York
I.B. Tauris
Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan
2007
xi, 226 p. ; 23 cm.
Reading contemporary television
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781845112462
edited by Merri Lisa Johnson
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Foreword / Rhonda Hammer and Douglas Kellner -- Introduction: ladies love your box : the rhetoric of pleasure and danger in feminist television studies / Merri Lisa Johnson -- Gangster feminism : the feminist cultural work of HBO s The Sopranos / Merri Lisa Johnson -- Female heterosexual sadism : the final feminist taboo in Buffy the vampire slayer and the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series / Carol Siegel -- Primetime harem fantasies : marriage, monogamy, and a bit of feminist fanfiction on ABC s The bachelor / Katherine Frank -- Getting wet : the heteroflexibility of Showtime s The L word / Candace Moore -- Queer as box : boi spectators and boy culture on Showtime s Queer as folk / Bobby Noble -- HBO s Oz and the fight against prisoner rape : chronicles from the front line / Lara Stemple -- "The room" as "heterosexual closet" : the life and death of alternative relationships on HBO s Six feet under / Leslie Heywood.