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Why watching Bravo’s Real Housewives is more than a guilty pleasure

http://voices.yahoo.com/why-watching-bravos-real-housewives-more-than-a-11522356.html

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Performing Gender

The article goes into a lot of detail about individual shows. So unless you follow any of the Real Housewives shows you are unlikely to understand most of the details. However, it provides an explanation to all of the drama … Continue reading

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Behind the Gates: A Feminist Critique of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Orange County

An interesting paper. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=comssp

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Wordplay

Derived from a combination of the worlds ‘bourgeois’ and ‘ghetto’Urban dictionary defines the word Boughetto as: “A person who is rich and wealthy but has poor mannerism and no etiquette. She bought a mega-mansion in an expensive gated community. She … Continue reading

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Reality TV…or Stereotype TV…

There is a reality TV show about almost every single type of person out there today. However, what I realize is that much of what is show to us in these reality TV shows isn’t the reality for a majority … Continue reading

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Atlanta vs. Orange County

The Real Housewives of Atlanta and Orange County are two of the most popular shows of the reality TV show. What makes a comparison between these two shows interesting is that both shows are its levels of popularity and their … Continue reading

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Margret Thatcher, Judith Butler and the Real Housewives

The media is ablaze with articles about the late Margret Thatcher. The “Iron Lady”. However one quote caught my eye. It was written one late Hugo Young in the Guardian in 2003. It read: Thatcher is remembered for her achievements, … Continue reading

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Homi Bhaba’s concept of ‘hybridity’ in our individual research

  At today’s café discussion we spoke about how Homi Baba’s concept of hybridity applied to our personal case studies. This is the gist of what each of us had to say. Reka Homi Bhabha’s argument complements the immense hybrid … Continue reading

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Re-Branding the Housewife

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/magazine/housewives-rebranded.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 An interesting perspective of how The show “Real Housewives” has re-branded the term housewife.

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“Real” mannequins

I recently read an article about “full bodied Mannequins” that have in Swedish clothing shop windows. These Mannequins, unlike their traditional counterparts are made to the model of a much fuller and bigger woman. Clad in skimpy underwear these mannequins … Continue reading

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