Country Cookin’ and Cross-Dressin’: Television, Southern White Masculinities, and Hierarchies of Cultural Taste

Television & New Media

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 175-195

  Smith, Greg M ^a   Wilson, Pamela ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Reinhardt College   (United States)

Author keywords

cooking show; drag; gender; masculinity; media studies; nostalgia; reception; regional television; social class; South; Southern; television history; whiteness; working class; country

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998153484     PISSN: 15274764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527476403260644     Document Type: Article

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