Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts it in a Box
by Merri Lisa Johnson [Editor]
My article about 'Queer as Folk' is here.​
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 As partly mentioned in the back of this book, the sexual politics of television culture is the territory covered here - the first to demonstrate the ways in which third-wave feminist television studies approach and illuminate mainstream TV. Leading voices in third-wave feminism focus on innovative US television shows, including my article about 'Queer as Folk' to take a closer look at the contradictions and reciprocities between feminism and television, engaging as they go in theoretical and critical conversations about media culture, third wave feminism, feminist spectatorship, the sex wars, and the politics of visual pleasure. The book offers an exuberant and accessible discussion of what television has to offer today's feminist fan. It also sets a new tone for future debate, turning away from a sober, near-pessimistic trend in much feminist media studies to reconnect with the roots of third-wave feminism in riot grrrl culture, sex radical feminism, and black feminism, tracing to the narratives provided by queer theory in which pleasure has a less congested place.