THIRD WAVE FEMINISM AND TELEVISION
Jane Puts It in a Box
Edited by Merri Lisa Johnson
Reading Contemporary Television
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Pub date: Mar 2007
224 pages
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Description
Jane Puts It in a Box
Author Bio
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 online collections: 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.
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 * Gangster Feminism: The Feminist Cultural Work of HBO's 'The Sopranos' * Female Heterosexual Sadism: The Final Feminist Taboo in 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series -- Carol Seigel * 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' -- J. Bobby Noble * Rape and Reality on HBO's 'Oz': An Advocate's Perspective -- Lara Stemple * "The Room" as "Heterosexual Closet": The Life and Death of Alternative Relationalities on HBO's 'Six Feet Under' -- Leslie Heywood
