Acknowledgements * List of Contributors * Foreword * Introduction * Regular Cast List and the Perfect Cosmopolitan * Sex, Sexuality and Relationships * What's the Harm in Believing?: Mr. Perfect/Mr. Big: Sex and the City's Commitment Dilemma--Joanna di Mattia * The Museum of Unnatural History: Male Freaks and Sex and the City--David Greven * Sexuality in the City--Mandy Merck * Socio-Sexual Identities and the Single Girl * Orgasms and Empowerment: Sex and the City and Third-Wave Feminism--Astrid Henry * Can There Be Sex without Politics?: Sex and the Single Girl--Ashley Nelson * Sex and the Citizen in Sex and the City's New York--Susan Zieger * Fashion and Cultural Identities * Fashion is the Fifth Character: Fashion Costume and Character in Sex and the City--Stella Bruzzi and Pamela Church-Gibson * Sex and the City: A Fashion Editor's Dream?--Anna Kouml;nig * 'My Manolos, My Self': Manolo Blahnik, Shoes and Desire--Sarah Niblock * Narrative, Genre and Intertexuality * Neurotic in New York: The Woody Allen Touches in Sex and the City--Tom Grochowski * Sex, Confession and Witness--Jonathan Bignell * Ms. Parker and the Vicious Circle: Female Narrative and Humor in Sex and the City--Kim Akass and Janet McCabe * Fandom, Flacirc;nerie and Desiring Identity * In Love with Sarah Jessica Parker: Celebrating Female Fandom and Friendship in Sex and the City--Deborah Jermyn * Flacirc;nerie, Sex and the City and Touring around Manhattan, (Including Map or Location Guide) * Through a Glass, Malarkey--Lucia Rahilly * Outsiders in the City--Ashley Nelson * Carried away in Manhattan--Kim Akass and Janet McCabe * Coulda, Shoulda, Prada: Shopping for Satori and Strappy Sandals in Sex and the City--Mark W. Bundy * Map of Sex and the City Manhattan * Episode Guide * Film and TV Guide * Bibliography * Index.
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