January 2001

This list is limited to English-language books focusing on feminist popular culture criticism and theory, images of women in popular culture, and the dialectical relationship between women/girls and popular culture. This list excludes books that are solely about film due to the existence of another core list on this topic. All titles are found in the January 2001 BOOKS IN PRINT. The most essential works are starred.

Allen, Robert C., ed. CHANNELS OF DISCOURSE, REASSEMBLED: TELEVISION & CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. pap. $17.95.

Ang, Ien, WATCHING DALLAS: SOAP OPERA AND THE MELODRAMATIC IMAGINATION. New York: Routledge, 1985. pap. $17.99.

Antler, Joyce, ed. TALKING BACK: IMAGES OF JEWISH WOMEN IN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1998. $45.00, pap. $22.95.

Aparicio, Frances R. LISTENING TO SALSA: GENDER, LATIN POPULAR MUSIC, AND PUERTO RICAN CULTURES. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1998. pap. $19.95.

Barthel, Diane, PUTTING ON APPEARANCES: GENDER AND ADVERTISING. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. pap. $19.95.

Baughman, Cynthia, ed. WOMEN ON ICE: FEMINIST ESSAYS ON THE TONYA HARDING/NANCY KERRIGAN SPECTACLE. New York: Routledge, 1995. $85.00, pap. $19.99.

Brown, Mary Ellen, SOAP OPERA AND WOMEN'S TALK: THE PLEASURE OF RESISTANCE. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1994. $52.00, pap. $24.95.

Brown, Mary Ellen, ed. TELEVISION AND WOMEN'S CULTURE: THE POLITICS OF THE POPULAR. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1990. $52.00, pap. $24.95.

Brunsdon, Charlotte, Julie D'Acci, and Lynn Spigel, eds. FEMINIST TELEVISION CRITICISM: A READER. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. $95.00, pap. $19.95.

Brunsdon, Charlotte, SCREEN TASTES: SOAP OPERA TO SATELLITE DISHES. New York: Routledge, 1997. $75.00, pap. $18.99.

Creekmur, Corey K. and Alexander Doty, eds. OUT IN CULTURE: GAY, LESBIAN, AND QUEER ESSAYS ON POPULAR CULTURE. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. $64.95, pap. $22.95.

Currie, Dawn H. GIRL TALK: ADOLESCENT MAGAZINES AND THEIR READERS. Buffalo, NY: University of Toronto Press, 1999. $60.00, pap. $24.95.

Douglas, Susan J. WHERE THE GIRLS ARE: GROWING UP FEMALE WITH THE MASS MEDIA. New York: Crown Publishing, 1995. pap. $16.00.

Dow, Bonnie J. PRIME-TIME FEMINISM: TELEVISION, MEDIA CULTURE, AND THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT SINCE 1970. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. $39.95, pap. $17.50.

Enstad, Nan, LADIES OF LABOR, GIRLS OF ADVENTURE: WORKING WOMEN, POPULAR CULTURE, AND LABOR POLITICS AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. $49.50, pap. $17.50.

Feuer, Jane, SEEING THROUGH THE EIGHTIES: TELEVISION AND REAGANISM. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. $49.95, pap. $16.95.

Finnegan, Margaret Mary, SELLING SUFFRAGE: CONSUMER CULTURE & VOTES FOR WOMEN. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. $49.50, pap. $17.50.

* Gamman, Lorraine and Margaret Marshment, eds. THE FEMALE GAZE: WOMEN AS VIEWERS OF POPULAR CULTURE. Seattle: Real Comet Press, 1989. $23.95, pap. $12.95.

Griffin, Gabriele, ed. OUTWRITE: LESBIANISM AND POPULAR CULTURE. Boulder, CO: Pluto Press, 1993. $49.95, pap. $17.95.

Hamer, Diane and Belinda Budge, eds. THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE GORGEOUS: POPULAR CULTURE'S ROMANCE WITH LESBIANISM. New York: New York University Press, 1994. pap. $16.00.

* Haralovich, Mary Beth and Lauren Rabinovitz, eds. TELEVISION, HISTORY, AND AMERICAN CULTURE: FEMINIST CRITICAL ESSAYS. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. $49.95, pap. $17.95.

Heide, Margaret J. TELEVISION CULTURE AND WOMEN'S LIVES: THIRTYSOMETHING AND THE CONTRADICTIONS OF GENDER. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. $32.50, pap. $14.95.

Heywood, Leslie, BODYMAKERS: A CULTURAL ANATOMY OF WOMEN'S BODY BUILDING. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. $48.00, pap. $18.00.

* hooks, bell, BLACK LOOKS: RACE AND REPRESENTATION. Boston: South End Press, 1992. $30.00, pap. $15.00.

Inness, Sherrie A. THE LESBIAN MENACE: IDEOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND THE REPRESENTATION OF LESBIAN LIFE. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. $40.00, pap. $17.95.

Inness, Sherrie A. TOUGH GIRLS: WOMEN WARRIORS AND WONDER WOMEN IN POPULAR CULTURE. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. pap. $19.95.

* Kaplan, E. Ann, ed. REGARDING TELEVISION: CRITICAL APPROACHES: AN ANTHOLOGY. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 1983. $42.95, pap. $12.95.

Kaplan, E. Ann, ROCKING AROUND THE CLOCK: MUSIC TELEVISION, POSTMODERNISM, AND CONSUMER CULTURE. New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1988. $29.95, pap. $11.95.

Landay, Lori, MADCAPS, SCREWBALLS, AND CON WOMEN: THE FEMALE TRICKSTER IN AMERICAN CULTURE. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. $45.00, pap. $22.50.

Latham, Angela J. POSING A THREAT: FLAPPERS, CHORUS GIRLS, AND OTHER BRAZEN PERFORMERS OF THE AMERICAN 1920s. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2000. $50.00, pap. $19.95.

Lewis, Lisa A. GENDER POLITICS AND MTV: VOICING THE DIFFERENCE. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. pap. $22.95.

Meyers, Marian, ed. MEDIATED WOMEN: REPRESENTATIONS IN POPULAR CULTURE. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1999. $79.50, pap. $29.95.

Mellencamp, Patricia, HIGH ANXIETY: CATASTROPHE, SCANDAL, AGE & COMEDY. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. $42.00, pap. $19.95.

Mellencamp, Patricia, ed. LOGICS OF TELEVISION: ESSAYS IN CULTURAL CRITICISM. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. pap. $15.95.

* Modleski, Tania, LOVING WITH A VENGEANCE: MASS-PRODUCED FANTASIES FOR WOMEN. New York: Routledge, 1984. pap. $18.99.

Modleski, Tania, ed. STUDIES IN ENTERTAINMENT: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO MASS CULTURE. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. pap. $10.95.

Nochimson, Martha, NO END TO HER: SOAP OPERA AND THE FEMALE SUBJECT. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. $48.00, pap. $16.95.

Press, Andrea Lee, WOMEN WATCHING TELEVISION: GENDER, CLASS, AND GENERATION IN THE AMERICAN TELEVISION EXPERIENCE. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. pap. $17.95.

* Radway, Janice A. READING THE ROMANCE: WOMEN, PATRIARCHY, AND POPULAR LITERATURE. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. pap. $15.95.

Rand, Erica, BARBIE'S QUEER ACCESSORIES. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. $49.95, pap. $16.95.

Rapping, Elayne, MEDIA-TIONS: FORAYS INTO THE CULTURE AND GENDER WARS. Boston: South End Press, 1994. $30.00, pap. $15.00.

Rapping, Elayne, THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK: PRIVATE STORIES/ PUBLIC EVENTS. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992. $42.95, pap. $16.95.

Raymond, Diane, ed. SEXUAL POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1990. $37.95, pap. $18.95.

Robbins, Trina, FROM GIRLS TO GRRRLZ: A HISTORY OF WOMEN'S COMICS FROM TEENS TO ZINES. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1999. pap. $17.95.

Robertson, Jennifer Ellen, TAKARAZUKA: SEXUAL POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE IN MODERN JAPAN. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. $40.00, pap. $15.95.

Rogers, Mary F. BARBIE CULTURE. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999. $65.00, pap. $24.95.

Rowe, Kathleen, THE UNRULY WOMAN: GENDER AND THE GENRES OF LAUGHTER. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. $37.50, pap. $17.95.

Shattuc, Jane, THE TALKING CURE: TV TALK SHOWS AND WOMEN. New York: Routledge, 1997. $75.00, pap. $19.99.

Spigel, Lynn, MAKE ROOM FOR TV: TELEVISION AND THE FAMILY IDEAL IN POSTWAR AMERICA. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. $48.50, pap. $18.00.

* Spigel, Lynn and Denise Mann, eds. PRIVATE SCREENINGS: TELEVISION AND THE FEMALE CONSUMER. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992. pap. $16.95.

Spigel, Lynn and Michael Curtin, eds. THE REVOLUTION WASN'T TELEVISED: SIXTIES TELEVISION AND SOCIAL CONFLICT. New York: Routledge, 1997. $75.00, pap. $19.99.

Thomson, Rosemarie Garland, EXTRAORDINARY BODIES: FIGURING PHYSICAL DISABILITY IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND LITERATURE. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. $47.50, pap. $16.50.

Valdivia, Angharad N. A LATINA IN THE LAND OF HOLLYWOOD AND OTHER ESSAYS ON MEDIA CULTURE. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000. $40.00, pap. $17.95.

Wallace, Michelle, INVISIBILITY BLUES: FROM POP TO THEORY. New York: Verso, 1990. pap. $19.00.

Walters, Suzanna Danuta, MATERIAL GIRLS: MAKING SENSE OF FEMINIST CULTURAL THEORY. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. pap. $15.95.

Whelehan, Imelda, OVERLOADED: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE FUTURE OF FEMINISM. London: Women's Press, 2000. pap. $22.95.

Williamson, Judith, CONSUMING PASSIONS: THE DYNAMICS OF POPULAR CULTURE. New York: Marion Boyars, 1986. pap. $14.95.

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