Acknowledgments

Introduction. Trash Talk: Gender as an Analytic on Reality Television / Brenda R. Weber

Part I. The Pleasures and Perils in Being Seen

1. The "Pig," the "Older Woman," and the "Catfight": Gender, Celebrity, and Controversy in a Decade of British Reality TV / Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn

2. Reality TV and the Gendered Politics of Flaunting / Misha Kavka

3. Keeping Up with the Aspirations: Commercial Family Values and the Kardashian Brand / Maria Pramaggiore and Diane Negra

4. When America's Queen of Talk Saved Britain's Duchess of Pork: Finding Sarah, Oprah Winfrey, and Transatlantic Self-Making / Brenda R. Weber

5. Wrecked: Programming Celesbian Reality / Dana Heller

Part II. Citizenship, Ethnicity, and (Trans)National Identity

6. Abject Femininity and Compulsory Masculinity on Jersey Shore / Amanda Ann Klein

7. Supersizing the Family: Nation, Gender, and Recession on Reality TV / Rebecca Stephens

8. "Get More Action" on Gladiatorial Television: Simulation and Masculinity on Deadliest Warrior / Lindsay Steenberg

9. Jade Goody's Preemptive Hagiography: Neoliberal Citizenship and Reality TV Celebrity / Kimberly Springer

Part III. Mediated Freak Shows and Cautionary Tales

10. "It's Not TV, It's Birth Control": Reality TV and the "Problem" of Teenage Pregnancy / Laurie Ouellette

11. Intimating Disaster: Choices, Women, and Hoarding Shows / Susan Lepselter

12. Freaky Five-Year-Olds and Mental Mommies: Narratives of Gender, Race, and Class in TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras / Kirsten Pike

13. Legitimate Targets: Reality Television and Large People / Gareth Palmer

14. Spectral Men: Femininity, Race, and Traumatic Manhood in the RTV Ghost-Hunter Genre / David Greven

Bibliography

Videography

Contributors

Index

Brenda R. Weber

Su Holmes

Misha Kavka

Maria Pramaggiore

Dana Heller

Amanda A Klein

Rebecca L. Stephens

Lindsay Steenberg

Kimberly Springer

Laurie Ouellette

Susan Lepselter

Kirsten Pike

Gareth Palmer

David Greven

Deborah Jermyn

Diane Negra

“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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