Television and Women's Culture

Introduction/Feminist Culturalist Television Criticism/Culture Theory Practice/PART ONE: WOMEN AS AUDIENCES AND CRITICS/Women as Audiences/For Television-Centered Television Criticism/Lessons from Feminism/Women Audiences and the Workplace/PART TWO: REPRESENTATION AND FANTASY: THE STRUCTURING OF FEMININE READING POSITIONS/Melodramatic Identification/Television Fiction and Women's Fantasy/Consumer Girl Culture/How Music Video Appeals to Girls/Rock Video/Pleasure and Resistance/PART THREE: WOMEN AND TELEVISION GENRES/`Cagney and Lacey'/Feminine Strategies of Detection/Women and Quiz Shows/Consumerism Patriarchy and Resisting Pleasures/Male Gazing/Australian Rules Football Gender and Television/Class Gender and the Female Viewer/Women's Responses to `Dynasty'/Motley Moments/Soap Opera Carnival Gossip and the Power of the Utterance/Conclusion/Consumption and Resistance - The Problem of Pleasure