Feminist television criticism: a reader

Pt. 1. Programmes and Heroines

1. Search for Tomorrow in Today's Soap Operas: Notes on a feminine narrative form / Tania Modleski

2. Sex and the City and Consumer Culture: Remediating postfeminist drama / Jane Arthurs

3. Women with a Mission: Lynda La Plante, DCI Jane Tennison and the reconfiguration of TV crime drama / Deborah Jermyn

4. Divas, Evil Black Bitches, and Bitter Black Women: African-American women in postfeminist and post-civil rights popular culture / Kimberly Springer

5. Ellen, Television and the Politics of Gay and Lesbian Visibility / Bonnie J. Dow

6. You'd Better Recognize: Oprah the iconic and television talk / Beretta E. Smith-Shomade

7. "Take Responsibility for Yourself": Judge Judy and the neoliberal citizen / Laurie Ouellette

8. Feeling Like a Domestic Goddess: Postfeminism and cooking / Joanne Hollows

9. Feminism Without Men: feminist media studies in a post-feminist age / Karen Boyle

10. Girls Rule! Gender, feminism, and Nickelodeon / Sarah Banet-Weiser

11. (In)visible Lesbian: Anxieties of representation in The L Word / Susan J. Wolfe and Lee Ann Roripaugh

Pt. 2. Audiences, Reception Contexts and Spectatorship

12. Women's Genres: Melodrama, soap opera, and theory / Annette Kuhn

13. Melodromatic Identifications: Television fiction and women's fantasy / Ien Ang

14. National Texts and Gendered Lives: An ethnography of television viewers in a North Indian City / Purnima Mankekar

15. Defining Asian Femininity: Chinese viewers of Japanese TV dramas in Singapore / Elizabeth MacLachlan and Geok-lian Chua

16. Globalization of Gender: Ally McBeal in post-socialist Slovenia / Ksenija Vidmar-Horvat

17. Performance and Reception of Televisual "Ugliness" in Yo soy Betty la fea / Yeidy M. Rivero

18. Sob Stories, Merriment, and Surprises: The 1950s audience participation show on network television and women's daytime reception / Marsha F. Cassidy.