TY - BOOK AU - Moseley,Rachel AU - Wheatley,Helen AU - Wood,Helen TI - Television for women: new directions SN - 9781138914292 (pbk. : alk. paper) U1 - R 791.4565 TEL PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Women on television KW - Women's television programs KW - Television and women N1 - Table of Contents List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: Television for Women - what new directions? Rachel Moseley, Helen Wheatley, Helen Wood Part I: Women and Work Chapter 1: Women’s History, Women’s Work: Popular Television as Feminine Historiography Moya Luckett Chapter 2: The Feminization of Contemporary British Television Drama: Sally Wainwright and Red Productions Ruth McElroy Chapter 3: "Women pushed their way forward and became quite a force within the BBC": Women’s roles in television production and the production of programmes for women Vanessa Jackson Part II: Women and Identity Chapter 4: Catfight! Camp and Queer Visibility in Orange is the New Black Dana A. Heller Chapter 5: Brown Girls Who Don’t Need Saving: Social Media and the Role of ‘Possessive Investment’ in The Mindy Project and The Good Wife Sujata Moorti Chapter 6: Watching One Born Every Minute: Negotiating the terms of the ‘good birth’ Sara De Benedictis Chapter 7: Sex, Class and Consumerism: British Sitcom’s Negotiation of the Single Girl Vicky Ball Part III: Formations of Women's Television Chapter 8: Feminist Television or Television for Women? Revisiting the Launch of Canada’s Women’s Television Network Sarah A. Matheson Chapter 9: Tradition and Innovation: Italian Women’s Channels, Factual Entertainment and the Significance of Generation in Women’s Viewing Preferences Cecilia Penati and Anna Sfardini Chapter 10: Producing Domestic Abuse in Pakistani Television: Between Commerce, Ratings and Social Responsibility Munira Cheema Part IV: Women and the Home Chapter 11: Television in the Ideal Home Helen Wheatley Chapter 12: "I’ve Been Having Fantasies about Regan and Carter Three Times a Week": Television, Women and Desire Hazel Collie Chapter 13: Dreaming of the ‘Good Life’: Gender, Mobility and Anxiety in Wanted Down Under Jilly Boyce Kay and Helen Wood   ER -