Historians on Housewives : fashion, performance, and power on Bravo reality TV /
"According to popular stereotype, Bravo reality television portrays vapid, one-dimensional characters tearing each other down for viewers' enjoyment. Whether The Real Housewives taps into our voyeuristic urges, our fascination with wealth and class, or the allure of the sheer spectacle of...
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Scholars do Bravo too! / Kacey Calahane, Jessica Millward, Max Speare
- 'I'm being nailed to the cross like Jesus was': martyrdom and suffering in medieval history and modern Real Housewives / Jen Edwards
- From sumptuary laws to glam squads: clothing and identity in the Spanish Empire and the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills / Haley Schroer
- Drama queens: the politics of performance in the early modern royal court and Housewives franchise / Emilie Brinkman
- The real housewives of medieval France: feminism, domestic drama, and the history of the household / Noah Guynn
- The Bravo brand: Andy Cohen, Bravolebrities, and the Bravoverse / Martina Baldwin
- Domestic lives as commodity: the history of housewifery as a consumer good from early America to Bravo's Real Housewives / Serenity Southerland and Jennifer Fogel
- Behind the scenes: housewives's strategies for reclaiming control in IPV narratives / Rosemarie Jones
- Politics and the Real Housewives: the 2016 election and the increase in political conversations on Bravo / Nicole Anslover
- Old money and champagne taste: the Real Housewives of Potomac and the history of Black philanthropy / Tanisha Ford
- Charleston and Southern charm- a drinking town with a history problem / Kristalyn Shefveland
- Real Housewives, Black capitalism and the New South / Marcia Chatelain.