The Fantasy of Reality

Contents: The Real Housewives: Casts and Seasons ? Ragan Fox: Queering «Housewives» ? Robin M. Boylorn: «Brains, Booty and All Bizness»: Identity Politics, Ratchet Respectability, and The Real Housewives of Atlanta ? Nicole B. Cox: Race (Re)visited: It's a (Mostly) White World ? Erin Ashenhurst: Sunshine Blondes in a City of Glass: On Watching the Real Vancouver ? Watching and Selling The Real Housewives ? Jacquelyn Arcy: Affective Enterprising: Branding the Self Through Emotional Excess ? Peter Bjelskou: The Real Entrepreneurs of New York City: Selling Elegance and Class in the Marketplace ? Rachael Liberman: Hate-Watching the Housewives: Gender, Power, and the Pleasure of Judgment ? Emily D. Ryalls: Do Mean Girls Grow Up? Watching «Queen Bee» Stassi Schroeder on Reality Television ? Judy Battaglia, Ashley Cordes, Kathleen Norris, and Roxanne Bañuelos: Love the Housewives, but Where's Our Feminism? ? David Gudelunas: Every Housewife's Best Friend: The Sidekick ? Without Him, The Real Housewives Wouldn't Exist ? Keith Berry/Tony E. Adams: Notes on Andy Cohen.