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

Other author Beirne, Rebecca.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Descriptionxiii, 251 pages ; 22 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-248) and index.
LCCN 2007016064
ISBN0230600808 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780230600805 (alk. paper)