“This book is a must-read for all who are interested in gender studies as well as for economists, sociologists, and people from social sciences who are interested in the social and political effects of the ongoing recession and the rising economic inequality in the United States and Europe. It provides an important missing link between feminist economist and sociological analyses of the gendered causes as well as the gendered impact of the financial crisis and the recession….” — Margunn Bjørnholt, Women’s Studies
“This collection of essays is an informative, interesting, and entertaining read, even for someone who has never watched a reality program because the essays are so well-written, and synopses so well-intertwined, that one can easily understand the arguments.” — Sarah Gawronski, The Journal of Popular Culture
"All in all, an indispensable addition to any self-respecting television studies library." — Donna Spalding Andréolle, Cercles
“This book is a must-read for all who are interested in gender studies as well as for economists, sociologists, and people from social sciences who are interested in the social and political effects of the ongoing recession and the rising economic inequality in the United States and Europe. It provides an important missing link between feminist economist and sociological analyses of the gendered causes as well as the gendered impact of the financial crisis and the recession….” —Margunn Bjørnholt, Women’s Studies
“This collection of essays is an informative, interesting, and entertaining read, even for someone who has never watched a reality program because the essays are so well-written, and synopses so well-intertwined, that one can easily understand the arguments.” —Sarah Gawronski, The Journal of Popular Culture
"All in all, an indispensable addition to any self-respecting television studies library." —Donna Spalding Andréolle, Cercles
"This timely anthology brings together a selection of strong scholarship concerned with the gendered dimensions of reality television. Although there already exist some good analyses of reality TV, this anthology’s focus on gender and its intersections is a necessary addition to the field. Brenda R. Weber’s introduction is pivotal in our thinking about gender and the reality genre, and there is a serious attempt to think beyond the US—including some useful contributions about UK reality television. The collection fills a gap in the scholarly literature and is a welcome and necessary addition to the field of reality TV studies." — Katherine Sender, author of, The Makeover: Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences
"While there has been a significant amount of research done on reality television over the past decade, only a small portion of that work has focused on gender, despite the plethora of issues around gender and sexuality found in reality TV programming. This anthology fills the gap." — Susan Murray, coeditor of, Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture
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