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Feminist Television Studies: The Case of HBO
Issue 3.1 | Fall 2004

Feminist Television Studies: The Case of HBO

Guest Edited by Lisa Johnson

IN THIS ISSUE

Introduction
by Lisa Johnson

About this Issue
by Janet Jakobsen and David Hopson

Recommended Reading

Online Resources

PART 1
Good Guys/Bad Girls: Rescripting Gender on The Sopranos

The Ghost of Gary Cooper: Masculinity, Homosocial Bonding, and The Sopranos
by Katherine Hyunmi Lee

The Stripper as Resisting Reader: Stripper Iconography and Sex Worker Feminism on The Sopranos
by Lisa Johnson

PART 2
No More Shallow Graves: Women Unearthing Desire on Six Feet Under

Claire Fisher on the Couch: Discourses of Female Subjectivity, Desire, and Teenage Angst in Six Feet Under
by Janet McCabe

“No Need for Fear or Secrets”: Ruth Fisher and Grotesque Realism in Six Feet Under
by Sherryl Wilson

PART 3
Sex and Feminist Media Studies: The Political Unconscious of Sex and the City

Throwing the Baby Out with the Bath Water: Miranda and the Myth of Maternal Instinct on Sex and the City
by Kim Akass

Charlotte Chooses Her Choice: Liberal Feminism on Sex and the City
by Beth Montemurro

Fabulousness as Fetish: Queer Politics in Sex and the City
by Cristy Turner

The Limits of Defamiliarization: Sex and the City as Late Heterosexuality
by Stephanie Harzewski

Why Television Burns: The Poems of Daphne Gottlieb

Introduction
by Lisa Johnson

Poems: “Her submissive streak”, “Slut”, “Gone to Static”, “Final Girl II: The Frame”

Video clips in this issue may contain sexually explicit content.