Televising queer women : a reader / edited by Rebecca Beirne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beirne, Rebecca.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lesbianism on television.

Physical Description:

xiii, 251 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

This timely collection provides high-quality interdisciplinary essays which address lesbian and bisexual representation in popular television shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, E.R., Queer as Folk, Sex and the City, The L Word, The O.C., and Sugar Rush. It also offers a critical introduction to queer women on television and to the scholarship that discusses such representation, and allows a framework for a multiplicity of viewpoints on a variety of topics and series. Book jacket.

Contents:

Resisting, reiterating, and dancing through : the swinging closet doors of Ellen DeGeneres' televised personalities / Candace Moore

Mommy's got a gal-pal : the victimized lesbian mother in the made-for-TV-movie / Kelly Kessler

Complicating the open closet : the visual rhetoric of Buffy the vampire slayer's Sapphic lovers / Tanya Cochran

"Can you just be kissing me now?" : the question(s) of Willow in Buffy the vampire slayer / Cynthea Masson

States of emergency : the labors of lesbian desire in ER / Dana Heller

Mapping lesbian sexuality on Queer as folk / Rebecca Beirne

A label like Gucci, Versace, or Birkenstock : Sex and the city and queer identity / Tabetha Adkins

"Going native on Wonder Woman's island" : the exoticization of lesbian sexuality in Sex and the city / Melissa M. M. Hidalgo

"This is the way we live? and love!" : feeding on and still hungering for lesbian representation in The L Word / Marnie Pratt

"Everything else is the same" : configurations of The L Word / M. Catherine Jonet and Laura Anh Williams

"Shades of grey" : articulations of bisexuality in the L Word / Jennifer Moorman

Paradigmatically oppositional representations : gender and sexual identity in The L Word / Faye Davies

Pink heels, dildos, and erotic play : the (re)making of fem(me)ininity in Showtime's The L Word / Erin Douglas

There's something queer going on in Orange County : the representation of queer women's sexuality in The O.C. / Allison Burgess.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-248) and index.

ISBN:

0230600808

9780230600805

OCLC:

124031770

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