Color of Rape: Gender and Race in Television's Public Spheres

Contents

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Television and Theories of the Public Sphere 15 2 The Feminist Subject of Rape 39 3 The Right of Sight Is White: The Singular Focus of Network News 71 4 White Men Do Feminism: Multiple Narratives of Prime-Time Rape 113 5 Testifying in the Court of Talk Shows 149 6 Fragmented Counternarratives 183 Conclusion 213 Notes 221 Index 261 v Contents To My Father and In Memory of My Mother ...