Vol. 1, Issue 4
May 20th, 2006 Special Theme: Popular Culture

 
Editorial
Big Love, Big Mistake: Popular Culture as Mirror by Lynda Hinkle

Articles

Great books for Girls? A case study of American Children's novels by Amy Singer

Emigration by Janice Walters

Menacing Strangers, Ineffectual Husbands, and Vacations from Hell: Lifetime TV as the New American Domestic Gothic by Vibiana Bowman

Scoobies and Potentials: The Slayer Community as Hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Kim Kirkpatrick

"Second only to Barbie": Identity, Fiction, and Non-Fiction in the American Girl Collection by Lise Mae Schlosser

First I’m a Woman: The Heroic Film Roles of Pam Grier by Randall Clark

Feminine Beauty and the Male Gaze in The L-Word by Susan J. Wolfe and Lee Ann Roripaugh

Will the Real Asian American Female Please Stand Up?: Margaret Cho’s Identity Problems by Debby Thompson

Submission and Liberation in the theatre of the Identical: La mysterique and Lars von Trier by Elise Danielle Thorburn

Giving scissors to the sisters: Ana Matronic and cutting up the popular cultural landscape by Tara Brabazon

Our Vaginas, Not Ourselves: A Critical Analysis of the ‘Vagina Monologues’ by Alyssa Rieser