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