I. Introduction. Fracturing women / Marian Meyers. II. Reinforcing stereotypes. Messages to women on love and marriage from women's magazines / Susan H. Alexander
Reader's digest on women : antifeminist articulations of "the second sex" / Shawmy Anderson
The pornography of everyday life / Jane Caputi
Mammy goes to Las Vegas : Showgirls and the constancy of African-American female stereotypes / Carmen R. Gillespie
Tales of difference : representations of American Indian women in popular film and television / S. Elizabeth Bird
Who is the Puerto Rican woman and how is she? : shall Hollywood respond? / Jocelyn A. Géliga Vargas
From rags to riches : the story of class advancement in women's figure skating coverage / Bettina Fabos. III. Limit/ed/ing challenges. "More power!" : negotiating masculinity and femininity in Home improvement / Charlene Dellinger-Pate and Roger C. Aden
"We are your neighbors" : Serving in silence and the simulated lesbian / Amy Villarejo
Only a joke? : the standup comedy of women of color / Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte
Madonna : transgression and reinscription / Carolyn Lea
New York times coverage of Anita Hill as a female cipher / Linda Steiner.
IV. Complexities and contradictions. The portrayal of women in television advertising / Carolyn Lin
Gender, Melrose Place, and the Aaron Spelling legacy / Elayne Rapping
Film noir, feminism, and the femme fatale : the hyper-sexed reality of Basic instinct / Tom Reichert and Charlene Melcher
"Who talks like that?" : foregrounding stereotypes on The nanny / Barbara Wilinsky. IV. Representing progress. And she lived happily ever after
: the Disney myth in the video age / Jill Birnie Henke and Diane Zimmerman Umble
Las familias y las latinas : mediated representations of gender roles / Lisa A. Flores and Michelle A. Holling
Immigrant inscriptions : redefining race and gender in Mississippi Masala / Anjali Ram
Gettin' real love : Waiting to exhale and film representations of womanist identity / Meta G. Carstarphen
News, feminism and the dialectics of gender relations / Carolyn M. Byerly.
