Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Regular cast list
Introduction, Janet McCabe and Kim Akass
Part 1: Culture
1. W Stands for Women, or is it Wisteria?: Watching Desperate Housewives with Bush, David Lavery
2. Still Desperate: Popular Television and the Female Zeitgeist, Rosalind Coward
3. Having It All: Desperate Housewives' Flimsy Feminism, Ashley Sayeau
4. Still Desperate After All These Years: The Post-Feminist Mystique and Maternal Dilemmas, Kim Akass
Part 2: Sexual Politics
5. Desperately Straight: The Subversive Sexual Politics of Desperate Housewives, Samuel A Chambers
6. What Is It With That Hair? Bree Van de Kamp and Policing Contemporary Femininity, Janet McCabe
7. As Kamp as Bree: Postfeminist Camp in Desperate Housewives, Niall Richardson
8. The 'Right' Ideology and Homosexual Representation in Desperate Housewives, Kristian T. Kahn
9. Hunters, heroes and the hegemonically masculine fantasies of Desperate Housewives, Brian Singleton
Part 3: Genre, Gender and Cultural Myths
10. Disciplining the Housewife in Desperate Housewives and Domestic Reality Television, Sharon Sharp
11. Murder and Mayhem on Wisteria Lane: a Study of Genre and Cultural Context in Desperate Housewives, Judith Lancioni
12. White Picket Fences, Domestic Containment and Female Subjectivity: Romantic Love in Desperate Housewives, Sherryl Wilson
13. 'Desperation and Domesticity': Reconfiguring the 'Happy Housewife' in Desperate Housewives, Anna Marie Bautista
Part 4: Narrative, Confession and Intimacy
14. Dying To Tell You Something: Posthumous Narration and Female Omniscience in Desperate Housewives, Deborah Jermyn
15. Desperation Loves Company: Female Friendship and the Façade of Female Intimacy in Desperate Housewives, Sherianne Shuler, Chad McBride and Erika Kirby
16. 'Mother, Home and Heaven': Nostalgia, Confession and Motherhood in Desperate Housewives, Stacy Gillis and Melanie Waters
Index
Bibliography
Episode Guide
Film and TV Guide