Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media, and Political Culture
This series publishes works that use feminist and qualitative methodologies, particularly of an ethnographic nature, to examine the cultural and political dimensions of print and electronic media and their reception. The series is closed to new submissions.
In a century that has taken us from the horse and buggy to the world wide web, science fiction has established itself as the literature to explore the ways in which technology transforms society while...
The Fantasy Factory explores the world of women on the other end of the phone sex lines advertised in magazines like Playboy and Hustler. The author's interviews with these women, as well as her own...
Depictions of rape on television have evolved dramatically, from hard-boiled stories about male detectives to more insightful shows focusing on rape victims. Rape on Prime Time is the first book to...
How the Mass Media Construct Legal Reform and Social Change
Lisa M. Cuklanz
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812215595
Pub Date: November 1995
Format: Paperback
160 Pages
Why has so much of the public discussion of rape focused on a few specific cases, and to what extent has this discussion incorporated the feminist perspective on rape? Rape on Trial explores these questions...
Family Plots traces the fault lines of the Freudian family romance and holds that the "family plot" is very much alive in post-World War II American culture. It cuts across all genres, insinuating,...
Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement Since 1970
Bonnie J. Dow
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812215540
Pub Date: June 1996
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleDow discusses a wide variety of television programming and provides specific case studies of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, One Day at a Time,...
"Thirtysomething" and the Contradictions of Gender
Margaret J. Heide
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812215342
Pub Date: February 1995
Format: Paperback
192 Pages
Contemporary cultural theory, feminist criticism, and ethnography converge in this provocative study of the construction of meaning in mass culture. Television Culture and Women's Lives explores the...
In 1990 the fledgling Fox television network debuted its prime-time soap opera Beverly Hills, 90210, which was intended to appeal to viewers in their late teens and early twenties. Before long, not...
Women have been tricking men for thousands of years, and female tricksters have been appearing in classic and popular texts at least since the Thousand and One Nights. While there are many studies of...
