The Oprah phenomenon /
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2007]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Oprah Winfrey as subject and spectacle / Jennifer Harris and Elwood Watson. pt. I. Oprah Winfrey and race. The specter of Oprah Winfrey: critical black female spectatorship / Tarshia L. Stanley
- My mom and Oprah Winfrey: her appeal to white women / Linda Kay
- The "Oprahization" of America: The man show and the redefinition of black femininity / Valerie Palmer-Mehta. pt. II. Oprah Winfrey on the stage. Oprah Winfrey and women's autobiography: a televisual performance of the therapeutic self / Eva Illouz and Nik John
- From fasting to self-acceptance: Oprah Winfrey and weight loss in American culture / Ella Howard
- Spiritual talk: The Oprah Winfrey show and the popularization of the New Age / Maria McGrath
- Oprah Winfrey and spirituality / Denise Martin
- Phenomenon on trial: reading rhetoric at Texas Beef v. Oprah Winfrey / Jennifer Richardson. pt. III. Oprah Winfrey on the page. Oprah's Book Club and the American dream / Malin Pereira
- Some lessons before dying: gender, morality, and the missing critical discourse in Oprah's Book Club / Roberta F. Hammett and Audrey Dentith
- Making corrections to Oprah's Book Club: reclaiming literary power for gendered literacy management / Sarah Robbins
- Knowing for sure: epistemologies of the autonomous self in O, the Oprah magazine / Marjorie Jolles
- Oprah Winfrey's branding of personal empowerment / Damiana Gibbons.