Televising Queer Women A Reader [Hardcover]

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 and The O.C.A Critical Introduction to Queer Women on Television Resisting, Reiterating, and Dancing Through: The Swinging Closet Doors of Ellen DeGeneres' Televised Personalities; C.Moore Mommy's Got a Gal-pal: The Victimized Lesbian Mother in the Made-for-TV-Movie; K.Kessler Complicating the Open Closet: The Visual Rhetoric of Buffy the Vampire Slayer 's Sapphic Lovers; T.Cochran ? 'Can You Just Be Kissing Me Now?': The Question(s) of Willow in Buffy the Vampire Slayer; C.Masson States of Emergency: The Labors of Lesbian Desire in ER; D.Heller Mapping Lesbian Sexuality on Queer as Folk; R.Beirne A Label Like Gucci, Versace, or Birkenstock:? Sex and the City and Queer Identity; T.Adkins 'Going Native on Wonder Woman's Island': The Exoticization of Lesbian Sexuality in Sex and the City; M.M.M.Hidalgo 'This Is the Way We Live&and Love!':?Feeding on and Still Hungering for Lesbian Representation in The L Word; M.Pratt '[E]verything else is the same':?Configurations of The L Word; M.C.Jonet & L.Anh Williams 'Shades of Grey': Articulations of Bisexuality in The L Word; J.Moorman Paradigmatically Oppositional Representations: Gender and Sexual Identity in The L Word; F.Davies Pink Heels, Dildos, and Erotic Play: The (Re)Making of Fem(me)ininity in Showtime's The L Word; E.Douglas There's Something Queer Going on in Orange County: The Representation of Queer Women's Sexuality on The O.C.; A.Burgess

'This collection is a welcome and timely addition to the growing library of academic texts exploring the complex and politically-charged intersections between television and queer identities. The essays gathered within its pages offer entertaining and provocative insights into a range of recent and contemporary Ul³"