Table of Contents

Foreword - Rhonda Hammer and Douglas Kellner Introduction: Ladies Love Your Box: The Rhetoric of Pleasure and Danger in Feminist Television Studies - Merri Lisa Johnson 1 Gangster Feminism: The Feminist Cultural Work of HBO's 'The Sopranos' 2 Female Heterosexual Sadism: The Final Feminist Taboo in 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series - Carol Seigel 3 Primetime Harem Fantasies: Marriage, Monogamy, and a Bit of Feminist Fanfiction on ABC's 'The Bachelor' - Katherine Frank 4 Getting Wet: The Heteroflexibility of Showtime's 'The L Word' - Candace Moore 5 Queer as Box: Boi Spectators and Boy Culture on Showtime's 'Queer as Folk' - J. Bobby Noble 6 Rape and Reality on HBO's 'Oz': An Advocate's Perspective - Lara Stemple 7 "The Room" as "Heterosexual Closet": The Life and Death of Alternative Relationalities on HBO's 'Six Feet Under' - Leslie Heywood

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Demonstrates the ways in which third wave feminist television studies approaches and illuminates mainstream TV. This work looks at the contradictions and reciprocities between feminism and television. It offers a discussion of what television has to offer feminist fan.

About the Author

Merri Lisa Johnson has published widely on representations of female sexuality in literature and popular culture. She is Editor of 'Jane Sexes It Up' (2001) and of two collections on'line: a special issue of 'Women Writers' on "Autobiographical Literary Criticism" and a special issue of 'The Scholar and Feminist' on "Feminist Television Studies: The Case of HBO". She is Director of the Center for Women's Studies at the University of Carolina-Upstate

Reviews

""If you know a sucker for any of the following -- Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, vampires -- then you may want to pick up this awesome anthology for them. Johnson...brings together a range of totally intriguing and theoretically rigorous essays on the intersection between popular television and new feminisms.' --Feministing.com