White picket fences, domestic containment and female subjectivity: the quest for romantic love

Wilson, Sherryl

Abstract

The chapter explores the representation of feminine desire for romantic love in the TV drama Desperate Housewives. It argues that the show recalls and articulates a pre-feminist sensibility.

• Publication Date: Jul 28, 2006
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 144-155
• Series Title: Reading Contemporary Television
• Book Title: Reading Desperate Housewives
• ISBN: 978-1845112202
• Keywords: romatic love, femininity, Desperate Housewives, TV drama
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1037636
• Publisher URL: http://www.ibtauris.com/display.asp?K=9781845112202&TAG=&CID=&PGE=rctv
• Additional Information: Additional Information : Cited in Kocurek, Carly 'Reading Desperate Housewives: Beyond the White Picket Fence' Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies (2007) Volume 37 No 1, pp. 93-93.