Introduction: why still study fans?/Cornel Sandvoss, Jonathan Gray, and C. Lee Harrington--
Fan texts and objects--The death of the reader?: literary theory and the study of texts in …

What do the Fab Five from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the Supernanny and celebrity
chef Jamie Oliver all have in common? Lifestyle gurus are increasingly intruding on …

She does not make a grand entrance. For one thing, she is already there, inside the house.
For another, it is part of the job description to be unassuming. Modest to a fault, she fans …

The lifestyle expert–a figure whose knowledge is tied to the ordinary and the everyday–has
emerged as a major cultural authority in recent times. This article examines the role and …

Abstract In 2007, Arnold Schwarzenegger received the European Campaigner of the Year
award. Chosen by the readers of European Voice for his work on solving global …

Dead women litter the visual landscape of the 2000s. In this book, Clarke Dillman explains
the contextual environment from which these images have arisen, how the images relate to …

Since October 2003, US news media have circulated a story about professional and
executive women leaving their well-paying, high-status occupations to raise their children at …

Prefaces can serve a variety of functions. We would like this one to speak in somewhat
personal terms about how we came up with the idea for and embarked on the creation of this …

Grounded in frame theory and the gendered mediation thesis, this study examines the use of
gendered descriptive language, metaphors, status and power designations as well as …

Despite years of dominating journalism school classrooms across North America, women
remain vastly underrepresented at the highest levels of newspaper leadership. Why do so …