Media-tions Book

	Acknowledgements	3
	Introduction	5
	Hollywood's Women
	Fatal Attraction and the Backlash	22
	Hollywood's Mid-1980s Feminist Heroines	27
	Do 1950s Values Tempt 1990s Women?	38
	Privileging Patriarchy at the Movies	43
	Lesbian Interventions	48
	Madonna's Feminist Challenge	51
	Hollywood's Year of the Woman	57
	Centralizing Feminism: Thelma and Louise	63
	Hollywood's Families
	The American Family and the American Dream	68
	Youth Cult Films	88
	Yuppie Horror Films	100
	Family Troubles: Woody Allen and Rachel Kingsley	106
	Hollywood's Men
	Romanticizing Male Violence	114
	The Fantasy Boys of Summer	118
	Rich White Men of Fiction	124
	Outing Hollywood	127
	My Own Private Idaho and Longtime Companion	131
	Tennessee Williams	135
	Gender on Television
	Made-for-TV Movies: The Domestication of Social Issues	138
	A Family Affair	148
	The Year of the Young: "Beverly Hills 90210" and Others	155
	The Three Faces of Amy Fisher	162
	Sex, Commercials, and Rock 'n' Roll	166
	Lifestyles, Trends, and Trash
	Daytime Soaps: Where Time Stands Still	176
	The Politics of Soap Operas	180
	Solace in Soapland	183
	Oprah, Phil, and Sally	192
	Romance Novels and Female Fantasy	197
	Tupperware and Women	202
	Hooked on a Feeling	213
	Needed: A Radical Recovery	219
	American Nightmare	227
	Contested Feminisms
	The Future of Motherhood	234
	The Second Time Around?	247
	Pleasure and Danger	253
	Backlash, The Beauty Myth, and Responses	258
	Girls Just Wanna Have Fun	275
	Feminism and Media in an Age of Reaction	282