Beyond the Feminine

Intersectionality and Hybridity in Talk Shows

Bibliographic Data

ID7499501
AuthorsBecca Cragin (Bowling Green State University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume33
Issue2
Pages154-172
Publication date2010-09-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWomen s Studies in Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0749-1409 • E-ISSN: 2152-999X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07491409.2010.507585
OpenAlexW2067936866
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited20

This essay analyzes the assumption often expressed or implied in feminist scholarship that the talk show is a feminine and even feminist genre. Tracing the origins of this trend to feminist television criticism's early focus on women's genres, the author argues that a preoccupation with femininity and feminism obscures the intersectionality and hybridity of the genre, as talk shows' obsessive thematization of race-, class-, and sexuality-based marginality is far more central to their composition and reception than gender

Art · Criticism · Femininity · Feminism · Focus (optics · Human sexuality · Hybridity · Intersectionality · Literature · Political science · Race (biology · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media Studies and Communication · Media, Gender, and Advertising

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