“He Needs to Face His Fears With These Five Queers!”: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Makeover TV, and the Lifestyle Expert

Television & New Media

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 285-311

  Lewis, Tania ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

class; consumerism; gender; lifestyle experts; makeover culture; reflexivity; television

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998186713     PISSN: 15274764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527476407306639     Document Type: Article

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