Ebook: Artisans of Empire: Crafts and Craftspeople Under the Ottomans

Introduction: airing the dirty laundry / Janet McCabe and Kim Akass -- Part 1: CULTURE -- 'W' stands for women, or is it Wisteria?: watching Desperate Housewives with Bush 43 / David Lavery -- Still desperate: popular television and the female Zeitgeist / Rosalind Coward -- Having it all: Desperate Housewives' flimsy feminism / Ashley Sayeau -- Still desperate after all these years: the post-feminist mystique and maternal dilemmas / Kim Akass -- Part 2: SEXUAL POLITICS -- Desperately straight: the subversive sexual politics of Desperate Housewives / Samuel A. Chambers -- What is it with that hair? Bree Van de Kamp and policing contemporary femininity / Janet McCabe -- As Kamp as Bree: post-feminist camp in Desperate Housewives / Niall Richardson -- Queer dilemmas: the 'right' ideology and homosexual representation in Desperate Housewives / Kristian T. Kahn -- Hunters, heroes and the hegemonically masculine fantasies of Desperate Housewives / Brian Singleton -- Part 3: GENRE, GENDER AND CULTURAL MYTHS -- Disciplining the housewife in Desperate Housewives and domestic reality television / Sharon Sharp -- Murder and mayhem on Wisteria Lane: a study of genre and cultural context in Desperate Housewives / Judith Lancioni -- White picket fences, domestic containment and female subjectivity: the quest for romantic love / Sherryl Wilson -- Desperation and domesticity: reconfiguring the 'happy housewife' in Desperate Housewives / Anna Marie Bautista -- Part 4: NARRATIVE, CONFESSION AND INTIMACY -- Dying to tell you something: posthumous narration and female omniscience in Desperate Housewives / Deborah Jermyn -- Desperation loves company: female friendship and the façade of female intimacy in Desperate Housewives / Sherianne Shuler, M. Chad McBride and Erika L. Kirby -- 'Mother, home and heaven': nostalgia confession and motherhood in Desperate Housewives / Stacy Gillis and Melanie Waters -- Desperately debating housewives / Jennifer L. Pozner and Jessica Seigel.