Cable Guys: Television and Masculinities in the 21st Century Cable Guys identifies the gradual incorporation of second-wave feminism into prevailing gender norms as the catalyst for the contested masculinities on display in contemporary cable dramas.
Redesigning Women: Television after the Network Era Redesigning Women examines whether the multiplicity of female-centric networks and narratives that appeared on US television in the late 1990s rendered certain gender stereotypes uninhabitable, and how then-new dramatic portrayals of women redefined narrative conventions.