Reality Gendervision

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Acknowledgments Introduction. Trash Talk: The Gender Politics of Reality Television / Brenda R. Weber Part I. The Pleasures and Perils in Being Seen 1. The Pig, the Older Woman, and the Catfight: Gender, Celebrity, and Controversy in a Decade of British Reality TV / Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn 2. Reality TV and the Gendered Politics of Flaunting / Misha Kavka 3. Keeping Up with the Aspirations: Commercial Family Values and the Kardashian Brand / Maria Pramaggiore and Diane Negra 4. When America's Queen of Talk Saved Britain's Duchess of Pork: Finding Sarah, Oprah Winfrey, and the Transatlantic Politics of Self-Making / Brenda R. Weber 5. Wrecked: Programming Celesbian Reality / Dana Heller Part II. Citizenship, Ethnicity, and (Trans)National Identity 6. Abject Femininity and Compulsory Masculinity on Jersey Shore / Amanda Ann Klein 7. Supersizing the Family: Nation, Gender, and Recession on Reality TV / Rebecca Stephens 8. Get More Action on Gladiatorial Television: Simulation and Masculinity on Deadliest Warrior / Lindsay Steenberg 9. Jade Goody's Preemptive Hagiography: Neoliberal Citizenship and Reality TV Celebrity / Kimberly Springer Part III. Mediated Freak Shows and Cautionary Tales 10. Not TV, It's Birth Control: Reality TV and the Problem of Teenage Pregnancy / Laurie Ouellette 11. Intimating Disaster: Choices, Women, and Hoarding Shows / Susan Lepselter 12. Freaky Five-Year-Olds and Mental Mommies: Narratives of Gender, Race, and Class in TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras / Kirsten Pike 13. Legitimate Targets: Reality Television and Large People / Gareth Palmer 14. Spectral Men: Femininity, Race, and Traumatic Manhood in the RTV Ghost-Hunter Genre / David Greven Bibliography Videography Contributors Index