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Gender and genre: situating Desperate Housewives
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Gender and genre: situating Desperate Housewives

Lisa Hill
Journal of Popular Film and Television, Vol.38(4), pp.162-169
2010
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Arts and Humanities Social and Behavioral Sciences gender postfeminism soap opera suburbia television

This article situates Desperate Housewives in a broader sociocultural context by examining its treatment of gender and genre. It is argued that the audience's knowledge of the generic conventions and gender stereotypes upon which the show draws allows them access to Desperate Housewives's interrogation of contemporary social convention.

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