{"product_id":"reality-gendervision-sexuality-and-gender-on-transatlantic-reality-television-paperback-softback-9780822356820","title":"Reality Gendervision; Sexuality and Gender on Transatlantic Reality Television (Paperback \/ softback) 9780822356820","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReality Gendervision\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSexuality and Gender on Transatlantic Reality Television\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBrenda R. Weber (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822356820\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 28 March 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e400 pages, 32 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.535 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“This book is a must-read for all who are interested in gender studies as well as for economists, sociologists, and people from social sciences who are interested in the social and political effects of the ongoing recession and the rising economic inequality in the United States and Europe. It provides an important missing link between feminist economist and sociological analyses of the gendered causes as well as the gendered impact of the financial crisis and the recession….”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e - Margunn Bjørnholt (Women's Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e“This collection of essays is an informative, interesting, and entertaining read, even for someone who has never watched a reality program because the essays are so well-written, and synopses so well-intertwined, that one can easily understand the arguments.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Sarah Gawronski (Journal of Popular Culture)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis essay collection focuses on the gendered dimensions of reality television in both the United States and Great Britain. Through close readings of a wide range of reality programming, from \u003ci\u003eFinding Sarah\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSister Wives\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eGhost Adventures\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDeadliest Warrior\u003c\/i\u003e, the contributors think through questions of femininity and masculinity, as they relate to the intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality. They connect the genre's combination of real people and surreal experiences, of authenticity and artifice, to the production of identity and norms of citizenship, the commodification of selfhood, and the naturalization of regimes of power. Whether assessing the Kardashian family brand, portrayals of hoarders, or big-family programs such as \u003ci\u003e19 Kids and Counting\u003c\/i\u003e, the contributors analyze reality television as a relevant site for the production and performance of gender. In the process, they illuminate the larger neoliberal and postfeminist contexts in which reality TV is produced, promoted, watched, and experienced.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors. David Greven, Dana Heller, Su Holmes, Deborah Jermyn, Misha Kavka, Amanda Ann Klein, Susan Lepselter, Diane Negra, Laurie Ouellette, Gareth Palmer, Kirsten Pike, Maria Pramaggiore, Kimberly Springer, Rebecca Stephens, Lindsay Steenberg, Brenda R. Weber\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Trash Talk: The Gender Politics of Reality Television \/ Brenda R. Weber \u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Pleasures and Perils in Being Seen \u003cbr\u003e 1. The \"\u003cbr\u003ePig,\"\u003cbr\u003e the \"\u003cbr\u003eOlder Woman,\"\u003cbr\u003e and the \"\u003cbr\u003eCatfight\"\u003cbr\u003e: Gender, Celebrity, and Controversy in a Decade of British Reality TV \/ Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn \u003cbr\u003e 2. Reality TV and the Gendered Politics of Flaunting \/ Misha Kavka \u003cbr\u003e 3. Keeping Up with the Aspirations: Commercial Family Values and the Kardashian Brand \/ Maria Pramaggiore and Diane Negra \u003cbr\u003e 4. When America's Queen of Talk Saved Britain's Duchess of Pork: \u003ci\u003eFinding Sarah\u003c\/i\u003e, Oprah Winfrey, and the Transatlantic Politics of Self-Making \/ Brenda R. Weber \u003cbr\u003e 5. Wrecked: Programming Celesbian Reality \/ Dana Heller \u003cbr\u003e Part II. Citizenship, Ethnicity, and (Trans)National Identity \u003cbr\u003e 6. Abject Femininity and Compulsory Masculinity on \u003ci\u003eJersey Shore\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Amanda Ann Klein \u003cbr\u003e 7. Supersizing the Family: Nation, Gender, and Recession on Reality TV \/ Rebecca Stephens \u003cbr\u003e 8. \"\u003cbr\u003eGet More Action\"\u003cbr\u003e on Gladiatorial Television: Simulation and Masculinity on \u003ci\u003eDeadliest Warrior\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Lindsay Steenberg \u003cbr\u003e 9. Jade Goody's Preemptive Hagiography: Neoliberal Citizenship and Reality TV Celebrity \/ Kimberly Springer \u003cbr\u003e Part III. Mediated Freak Shows and Cautionary Tales \u003cbr\u003e 10. \"\u003cbr\u003eIt's Not TV, It's Birth Control\"\u003cbr\u003e: Reality TV and the \"\u003cbr\u003eProblem\"\u003cbr\u003e of Teenage Pregnancy \/ Laurie Ouellette \u003cbr\u003e 11. Intimating Disaster: Choices, Women, and Hoarding Shows \/ Susan Lepselter \u003cbr\u003e 12. Freaky Five-Year-Olds and Mental Mommies: Narratives of Gender, Race, and Class in TLC's \u003ci\u003eToddlers \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e Tiaras\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Kirsten Pike \u003cbr\u003e 13. Legitimate Targets: Reality Television and Large People \/ Gareth Palmer \u003cbr\u003e 14. Spectral Men: Femininity, Race, and Traumatic Manhood in the RTV Ghost-Hunter Genre \/ David Greven \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Videography \u003cbr\u003e Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580194550040,"sku":"9780822356820","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/reality-gendervision-sexuality-and-gender-on-transatlantic-reality-television-paperback-softback-9780822356820","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}